[sterlind]

It seems bizarre to me that a crypto miner got in. It wouldn't make much money on regular CPUs, and the high processor usage would immediately draw attention. So it looks like a low-effort botnet, which is embarrassing to get pwned by.

(The coin mining could be a cover like you mention, but it seems unlikely since it naturally draws attention.)

[vertex-four]

It’s easier to sell Monero for cash than... some random data from some random company.

[itsajoke]

I once worked at a place where a minor piece of cloud infra got exploited. All the attacker did was run a monero miner on it.

[sterlind]

Heh, in a way it makes a good bug bounty. Like if popping calc got you a trickle of income.

[optimiz3]

> It wouldn't make much money on regular CPUs

Not true; some PoWs such as Random-X are designed to be most efficient CPUs.