doubt it. the white paper explains why this is unlikely. the hackers would have to distribute their private key with the malware and the miner requires a strong network connection which botnets lack.
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Well the mining instructions say not to use the same key on more than one witness so each probably has a separate key to begin with. Just a matter of sweeping the accounts as soon as possible.
It could just be someone has installed in on every computer in some university labs or something like that too.
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Each node is finding a POW in 2-3 hours. You can't do that with PC using the standard miner.
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Agreed. Most likely he created a GPU miner.
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