Cybercrooks are infecting computers with software mining software to mine Zcash, a new virtual currency. Zcash (ZEC) is a new cryptocurrency that claims to be more anonymous than Bitcoin, as the sender, recipient and value of transactions can be hidden. At the time of writing, 1 ZEC is worth 0.06 BTC or around $49.6 BTC. Kaspersky Lab has so far detected around 1,000 possibly infected computers that have some versions of the Zcash miner software under a different name.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/12/zcash-cryptocurrency-miner.html