A new family of mining malware, named ZombieBoy, earns its operators approximately $1,000 per month, a report released by the independent researcher James Quinn, showed.
The cryptojacking tool is an infectious worm, similar to MassMiner.
“Prior to shutting down one of its addresses on minexmr.com, ZombieBoy was mining at around 43KH/s. This would earn the attackers slightly over $1,000 per month at current Monero prices,” Quinn noted.
Like MassMiner, ZombieBoy uses some exploits to spread, however, uses WinEggDrop instead of MassScan to search for new hosts. The malware has constantly been updated, according to Quinn.
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