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Monero Miner

aka CoinMiner

According to ESET, first seen in-the-wild on 26th May, 2017, the malicious mining software is a fork of a legitimate open source Monero CPU miner called xmrig.

Monero Miner, also known as CoinMiner, is a Windows malware family.

Background

ESET reports that this malicious mining tool, first observed in the wild on May 26, 2017, is a fork of xmrig, a legitimate open-source Monero CPU miner.

Source: Malpedia (Fraunhofer FKIE).