[1270018080]

If you have that much computing power at your disposal, you might as well just mine cryptocurrency, right?

[codsane]

Not necessarily as this is Mirai, a botnet of IoT devices. There’s probably not much else you could do with them.

[remram]

You can probably do both at the same time, as cryptocurrency uses a lot of CPU/GPU/memory/... but little bandwidth, and DDoS typically uses bandwidth but little CPU/GPU/memory/...