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> New research shows the attackers behind one such scheme have developed an ingenious way of keeping their malware from being taken down by security experts or law enforcement: By hosting the malicious files on a decentralized, anonymous cryptocurrency blockchain

Finally a practical use for web3

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I'm surprised Krebs says something like this, because it's not novel at all. I'm in the industry, and malware used public blockchains at least as far back as 2017 (probably way before, but that's when I first analysed a sample that does that).

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