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For an even bigger coincidence, the new Monero project to add support for I2P is called Kovri, a prefix of your username!

Speaking about criminals using Monero, they've started making ransomware that accepts Monero. As far as I know, they don't for the other supposed-anonymous cryptocurriencies.

With this little script the attacker made ~2700$ in the last five days!

There was Bitcoin malware back when CPU mining was feasible. If memory serves me correctly, someone figured out it would be break-even serving ads with JS bitcoin miners.

that's a clever little cron job

Yeah that's a neat way of hosting malware on someone else's servers. It seems to also download a few binaries and put them in /tmp/ using the same trick.