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> we can see that the malware authors mined 53.72 XMR (~4,200 USD at the time of publishing this article) during the near month that the above address was activ
by zawerf 7y ago
> we can see that the malware authors mined 53.72 XMR (~4,200 USD at the time of publishing this article) during the near month that the above address was active.
Anyone a little surprised by how small the profits are?
With control over 850,000 infected machines with an average of 2.94 cores each, I expected him to do something that will make him much more than a regular software engineering day job.
- sneystein 7y agoPart of the reason might be that the malware was designed to be benign and not use all available resources
- _nhynes 7y ago> benign For the computers running on renewable power (Costa Rica, maybe?), it would truly be benign and not just stealthy. Long live green PoW!
- toyg 7y agoConsidering this is a South-American virus, I suspect that it actually is making more than most SW devs over there...