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The researchers named this campaign CroniX, a moniker that derives from the malware's use of Cron to achieve persistence and Xhide to launch executables with fake process names. The cryptocurrency minted on victim's computers is Monero (XMR), the coin of choice in cryptojacking activities. To make sure that rival activity does not revive, CroniX deletes the binaries of other cryptominers present on the system. Another action CroniX takes to establish supremacy on the machine is to check the names of the processes and kill those that swallow 60% of the CPU or more.