A cryptomining botnet campaign is using bitcoin transactions to hide command-and-control server addresses and stay under the radar, Akamai says. The operators behind the campaign have mined over $30,000 in monero from unknowing hosts over the past three years, the security firm says. By pushing a small amount of BTC [bitcoin] into a wallet, attackers can recover infected systems that have been orphaned, creating a way to distribute configuration information in a medium that is effectively unseizable and uncensorable.”]
Source: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/cryptomining-botnet-uses-bitcoin-wallet-to-avoid-detection-a-16085