North Korea appears to have taken a liking to monero, the world’s 13th largest cryptocurrency by value.Earlier this week, cybersecurity researchers at U.S. firm AlienVault found evidence of a malicious piece of software that infected computers to mine monero and send it back to North Korea.Mining is the process of solving complex mathematical equations in order to verify a transaction using cryptocurrency; the miner gets rewarded in that cryptocurrency.
Source: What is monero, North Korea’s new favorite cryptocurrency? – CNBC
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