Quote:Cryptomining has taken ransomware's place as the top cybersecurity threat in 2018, according to Webroot's Mid-Year Threat Report Update. Focusing on trends in the first half of 2018, the report discovered cyberattack vectors becoming increasingly advanced and sophisticated, according to the Tuesday press release for the report.

General malware, which includes both ransomware and cryptomining, made up 52% of cybersecurity threats in the first half of 2018, said the release. But cryptojacking—the nonconsensual act of cryptomining someone else's machine—alone accounted for 35% of threats.