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Comment by dawnerd

17 hours ago

Just about every exploited site I've had to deal with has been some form of crypto miner.

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da_chicken  11 hours ago

Sure, because there's no reason not to, and because crypto mining is noisier than data exfiltration.

That doesn't mean it's the most lucrative revenue stream.

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