Researchers say Smominru threat actors are in control of 500,000 node botnet and earning $8,500 daily mining for Monero cryptocurrency.
Criminals behind the cryptocurrency miner Smominru have raked in between $2.8 to $3.6 million since May. The payday is impressive, say researchers at Proofpoint, who report that operators have amassed a formidable botnet of infected servers pumping out 24 Monero daily, or the equivalent of $8,500.
The Smominru botnet, researchers said, is comprised of 526,000 infected Windows-based servers spread across Russia, India and Taiwan. The botnet is about twice the size of the cryptocurrency botnet Adylkuzz identified in May by Proofpoint.
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