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The author of the Crackonosh mining virus makes Monero (XMR) more than $ 2 million after infecting 222,000 computers

Crackonosh malware was found in 222,000 compromised computers used to mine coins for its author report The security company Avast announced on Thursday.

This virus was released around June 2018 and has earned the author over $ 2 million worth of Monero (XMR) since then.

Monero is a privacy coin that is widely used by cyber criminals as it is much more difficult to track than other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Monero-focused cryptocurrency mining attacks are relatively common: Pirate Bay, a website that allows users to download pirated copies of movies, music, software, and games, announced in 2018 that visitors’ computing power when mining coins was “cryptojacking” becomes. In 2020, a botnet called Vollgar was also discovered targeting Microsoft’s SQL servers for XMR mining.

According to Avast’s analysis, Crackonosh has worked successfully for many years because it has built-in mechanisms to disable security software and updates that make it difficult for users to detect and remove the program.

Map of the countries affected by this virus | Source: Avast

This malware is believed to originate from the Czech Republic, but it has a global reach. Victims in the US made up 5% of the total. No data on Synthetic Team.

Thach Sanh

According to Coindesk

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