> we can see that the malware authors mined 53.72 XMR (~4,200 USD at the time of publishing this article) during the near month that the above address was active.

Anyone a little surprised by how small the profits are?

With control over 850,000 infected machines with an average of 2.94 cores each, I expected him to do something that will make him much more than a regular software engineering day job.