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Trojan Goes After Bitcoins

Posted by Soulskill on from the strict-inevitabilities dept.

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)."

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  1. Re:mugging by Mindcontrolled · · Score: -1, Troll

    So can we finally settle on the fact that bitcoin is not only bullshit, but obviously plain stupid bullshit and move on, stopping with the spam about a meaningless circlejerk by some basement dwellers that have no clue about economics, except for maybe profiteering from a ponzi scheme?

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  2. Re:mugging by Mindcontrolled · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hook, line and sinker. Wish the trout were that cooperative these days. Now, to finish off your ramblings, take into consideration the fact that social security is not, and was never meant to be an investment scheme.

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    Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.