at the peak of BitCoin pricing a lot of the hacked servers were being used for BitCoin mining.
Cite please. I was paying close attention during the boom to, among other things, the (non)use of botnets for Bitcoin mining, and I saw next to zero evidence of nontrivial usage.
most of those I saw were webservers hacked using the same small set of exploits, or same sets of default credentials.
Aren’t botnets primarily home computers or routers?
Botnet operators hardly ever get caught.
Cite please. I was paying close attention during the boom to, among other things, the (non)use of botnets for Bitcoin mining, and I saw next to zero evidence of nontrivial usage.
Aren’t botnets primarily home computers or routers?