Popular exploit kit turns its sights to drive-by cryptomining in what security researchers believe will be a trend to follow in 2018.

Even after a precipitous drop in activity last quarter, security researchers say that the RIG Exploit Kit (RIG EK) still leads the pack when it comes to overall malicious campaigns. And some of them have found that the crooks are expanding their moneymaking horizons by using RIG to take advantage of the cryptocurrency craze bubbling the market for Bitcoin and other currencies. The exploit kit is being used by the bad guys in a new malicious campaign to distribute coin miners through drive-by downloads that they say likely signals another wide-scale evolution in the cybercriminal enterprise.

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