Discovered Linux-Trojan mining cryptocurrency

Researchers of company "Doctor Web," said the discovery of the Linux-Trojan, which Mayne cryptocurrency on infected machines.
The virus, dubbed Linux.Lady.1. and written in Go, developed by Google, infects servers with Redis (remote dictionary server) data journaling storage and independently distributed from one machine to another. In its design, the virus uses the library, published in the popular storage service and joint development of application GitHub.

It is reported that malware has the ability to define an IP-address of the infected computer to infect other systems and to set their own program system for mining cryptocurrency. Money obtained in this way are transferred to a malicious wallets.

Recall that in May of this year, running os X computers have been attacked by a virus KeRanger, encrypt all data on the hard disk and demanded a ransom of one Bitcoin.