https://wccftech.com/cryptojacking-overtakes-ransomware/

Several coins may have lost their value in the past few months after an unprecedented hike last year, but cryptojacking continues to reign supreme. It appears that this comparatively new malicious form of making money online is taking over ransomware. Last year, a number of high profile ransomware attacks targeted some of the biggest organizations of the world, crippling entire hospitals.

However, criminals are now moving away from ransomware to more easily deployed cryptojacking attacks that can be carried out without the need of demanding your victim to send you money to get their files back. While mining cryptocurrency this way takes its sweet time, by infecting hundreds of thousands of machines, criminals can and do seem to be making huge profits.