![]() “At the current time, the completely private wallets are not very popular (they are not supported by exchanges), and are only used to store around 1% of all existing Zcash coins.” Zcash allows two types of wallets, completely private purses (z-address) and public wallets like the one shown above (t-address). The researchers explained that also for Zcash is possible to ‘snoop’ on some of the wallets used by criminal organizations and discovery the amount of money they received. ![]() “Both are detected by Kaspersky Lab products, with the respective verdicts not-a-virus: and not-a-virus.” continues Kaspersky. The researchers explained that the most popular mining software to date is nheqminer from the mining pool Micemash, which allows earning payments in both bitcoins and Zcash. A botnet composed of one thousand computers can mine about 20,000 hashes a second, that at current prices correspond to $6,200 a month in net profits. Kaspersky also discovered a couple of websites distributing mining programs:Īnyway, malware researchers believe that it is only a matter of time, criminal organizations will their botnets to deliver the miner on already infected systems or to spread the threat.Ĭonsider that an average machine is able to mine about 20 hashes per second. Kaspersky Lab products detect them as not-a-virus.” reads a blog post published by Kaspersky.Ĭrooks are distributing Zcash miners through pirated software via torrents, but the experts still haven’t seen any cases of mass-mailings campaign with this specific purpose. Because these software programs are not malicious in themselves, most anti-malware programs do not react to them, or detect them as potentially unwanted programs (PUP). ![]() “In November, we recorded several incidents where Zcash mining software was installed on users’ computers without permission. Now the situation is normal, the value of a ZEC declined compared to the one of the Bitcoin, at the time of writing, it is 0.07 – 0.01 ZEC/BTC (around $70).Īccording to the experts from Kaspersky Lab, despite this drop, Zcash mining remains among the most profitable compared to other cryptocurrencies, this means more opportunity for cyber criminals that started creating botnets for mining. A few hours, 1 ZEC reached $30,000, and this is normal considering that there was a high request and only a few dozen coins available. ![]()
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