https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kingminer-patches-vulnerable-servers-to-lock-out-competitors/

Operators of the cryptojacking botnet Kingminer botnet are trying to keep their business humming by applying hotfixes from Microsoft on vulnerable infected computers to lock out other threat actors thay may claim a piece of their pie.

Kingminer has been around for about two years and continues to brute-force its way on SQL servers to install the XMRig cryptocurrency miner for Monero.