Information security company Trend Micro said it had found a new family of malware, nicknamed by researchers as BlackSquid. It infects web servers, network drives and removable drives by installing mining software through many different exploits.

Xbash is a unique malware that is a ransomware, botnet, a worm and a XMR crypto currency miner at same time. What distinguish it from normal every day malware is that it has the ability to execute on Windows and Linux alike.