For example, the electricity consumption for bitcoin production is equal to the annual energy consumption of Sweden. The growing energy costs of cryptocurrency production contribute to the growing popularity of malicious mining or cryptojacking – threats that infiltrate a user's device to secretly mine cryptocurrency. According to the new statistics, the trend of growing energy consumption by crypto mining remains. In 2022, Kaspersky products prevented 202,540,954 attempts by hijackers to use another device for crypto mining. It is important to understand that the more energy mining consumes, the more carbon dioxide and other harmful substances are emitted into the atmosphere.
