Bizarre botnet infects your PC to scrub away cryptocurrency mining malware

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On Monday, researchers from Qihoo's 360Netlab said that Fbot, a botnet based on Satori botnet coding, is demonstrating some extremely odd behavior for such a system.
Satori is a botnet variant based on Mirai, the infamous botnet which was able to take down online services across an entire country.

The researchers say that Fbot appeared on the radar last week and it appears the only job this botnet has is to chase down systems infected by another botnet, com.ufo.miner, a variant of ADB.Miner.
ADB.Miner has been active of late. The botnet targets Android devices -- including smartphones, the Amazon Fire TV, and set-top boxes -- for the purpose of cryptojacking and covertly mining for Monero (XMR) with the help of the Coinhive mining script.

Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/bizarre-bo...y-malware/