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New Mac OS Trojan Produces BitCoins

Posted by Unknown on from the why-is-my-computer-on-fire dept.

angry tapir writes about an interesting use for malware. From the Techworld article: "A newly identified Mac OS X Trojan bundles a component that leverages the processing power of video cards to generate Bitcoins, a popular type of virtual currency. The new Trojan was dubbed DevilRobber by antivirus vendors and is being distributed together with several software applications via BitTorrent sites."

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  1. Re:A perfect storm of trolling by AlienIntelligence · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A Mac Trojan and a Bitcoin story in one! Quick someone tie this into global warming!

    What's there to tie into global warming...? Of course the production
    of bitcoins uses processor or GPU, which uses electricity, which
    pollutes the atmosphere cause it's the electricity from the coal plants
    ONLY and not from the nuke plants... but the nuke plants are just
    as bad cause they are all susceptible to tsunamis, even the inland
    ones.

    So, yeah, I added global warming AND nuke, there!

    -AI

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    For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion