Digging Too Deep: An Analysis on the Current State of Data Mining
(Qlik.com) Data mining in principle is the method used with the purpose of finding trends, patterns, correlations, and other relationship types among variables. As such, data mining is utilized by large businesses with the intent of gaining more knowledge about what they do by leveraging their data assets. However, data mining may also be used illegally. The most prominent illegal use of data mining are hidden crypto-miners installed on another software. Most software that have hidden crypto-miners built in them are usually pirated content, as the files involved within this type of software them are usually unsupervised by trusted sources, meaning that the likelihood of file publishers getting caught spreading crypto-miner infested software are almost zero; making pirated content a popular method of spreading crypto-miners on other people's devices. (Plasbit.com) As a computer science student, I have seen cases where people who I know personally have fallen victim to
