XiaoBa Ransomware Retooled as Coinminer But Manages to Ruin Your Files Anyway

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The authors of the XiaoBa ransomware have retooled their malware's code into a cryptocurrency miner (coinminer). Unfortunately, despite not encrypting files anymore, the XiaoBa coinminer still destroys users' data thanks to a series of bugs that primarily corrupt a user's executable files. [...]