Researchers Found the Biggest Botnet Dedicated to Hidden Monero Mining

More than a half million Windows machines, mostly servers, have been zombified by Monero mining malware spread by a cyber gang that created the biggest mining botnet found to date. This botnet is called Smominru. Several security companies have released their research on this cyber group activity. It is a relatively new gang. Crooks started their operations not earlier than the previous year. All reports that earlier described the Smominru botnet, managed to cover only a small part of the gang’s operation. Partial botnet infrastructure has been previously provided by Kaspersky, TrendMicro, Panda Security. However, the latest study by Proofpoint…