[eurleif]

There will always be ways to monetize malware. I'd rather they monetize it by mining Bitcoins than by doing something more destructive.

[taf2]

honeypot anyone... create the appears of a hacked machine that is successfully mining... keep'em busy for a few weeks ...

[wahnfrieden]

It's surely automated, in which case, there's nothing to "keep busy" like a human manually hacking into the average lousy computer one by one.