Monero coin mining is the current darling of the cybercriminal community. Monero-mining malware has been the center of development in virus programming vis-a-vis ransomware. It is a very profitable undertaking for Monero mining malware to be embedded with a legitimate site, without the users knowledge that it is already stealing CPU/GPU cycles for the task. The mining operations happen on the browser itself, which means the risk is not only Windows-based, the used to be more secure platforms, Linux and MacOS are also vulnerable.”]
Source: https://hackercombat.com/monero-the-cryptocurrency-that-cybercriminals-can-never-hate/