VERY IMPORTANT

Researchers have identified indicators traditionally pointing to the WatchDog cryptojacking group, which have been incorporated in the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by the TeamTNT cryptojacking group. While TeamTNT is believed to be the author of these new scripts, as several of the scripts were found within TeamTNT-owned public malware repositories, the lack of the more advanced TeamTNT operational TTPs is puzzling. It appears that TeamTNT may be attempting to expand their cryptojacking operations, while simultaneously masking their operations in those of the known cryptojacking operations performed by WatchDog.