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That's not the point I was responding to though. The OP was saying that bitcoin mining would be an unlikely motivation to exploit this, all I'm saying is that a lot of Windows malware is written precisely to steal CPU cycles in order to mine cryptocurrencies.

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It's a loose assumption based on a chain of unlikely events, not a distinct outcome like the title suggests.

It's a ubuntu based subsystem. Apt-get probably uses their official repo and you would have to get your malware into that first and then make some windows beta-user install your new and unknown package.

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