Trojan Goes After Bitcoins

Orome1 writes "Bitcoin has definitely caught the attention of criminals. Even though it has been calculated that the use of botnets for Bitcoin mining is still not quite as lucrative as renting them out for other purposes, targeting people who have them in their digital wallets is quite another matter. Symantec researchers have spotted in the wild a Trojan dedicated to this specific purpose. Named Infostealer.Coinbit, it searches for the Bitcoin wallet.dat file on the infected computer and sends it to the criminal(s)."

Comments

Re:mugging

[cgeys]

Well, it's open source. You can improve it yourself.

Re:Is there any way to give them a poisoned wallet

[bistromath007]

*looks at the trend in value of bitcoins*

Yes.

My offer stands

[bigsexyjoe]

I would be happy to pay five billion bigsexyjoe nickels for you to stop running bitcoin stories. Thank you

Trojans are unsafe.

[Ukab the Great]

Trojan's in your wallets don't offer very much protection. Any sex ed teacher can tell you that.