VERY IMPORTANT

At the beginning of 2018, SophosLabs discovered JavaScript mining programs embedded in 19 Google Play apps. • Existing Android mining malware can be divided into two categories: JavaScript in-browser miners and third-party mining modules such as CoinMiner. SophosLabs recorded over 28,000 Loapi mining malware variants in the wild. Most of them were released between June and November 2017, while Bitcoin’s price surged nearly 500% during that time.