Cryptomining faded from the headlines in late 2018 with falling bitcoin prices, but Kaspersky still considers it a major nuisance, which is employed by rogue employees as well as cybercriminals.
Canada leads the countries surveyed in both the average ransom paid to ransomware creators and the amount of money lost to downtime from ransomware, which is hardly ideal, and something that Canadian MSPs need to work smarter to prevent.
Formjacking passed cryptojacking and ransomware to become the top threat highlighted by Symantec in 2018, although both of these other types of attacks continue to be problematic for the commercial market in particular.