By Daniel Palmer - CoinDesk.com - Coin Desk

Called Fbot, the botnet is a variant of one called Satori, which is in turn based on Mirai – a program normally used for DDoS attacks. Unusually, the DDoS module seems to have been deactivated and instead Fbot searches for devices infected with a specific crypto-jacking malware and replaces it in the system, the report says.

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