An affiliate program that pays people for the mass installation of programs that turns host machines into bitcoin mining bots. An increasing number of malware samples in the wild are using host systems to secretly mine bitcoins. FeodalCash has managed to attract at least 238 working affiliates. The program’s administrator claims his mining program isnt malware, although he cautions all affiliates against submitting the installer program to multi-antivirus scanners such as Virustotal. It appears to be the work of two guys from Ukraine, Andrei Andrey and Andrei Beer.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/07/botcoin-bitcoin-mining-by-botnet/