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Mac OS X Bitcoin Stealing Trojan Horse Called OSX/CoinThief Discovered

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 9, 2014 @05:35PM from the willie-sutton-principle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SecureMac.com has discovered a new trojan horse for Mac OS X called OSX/CoinThief.A, which spies on web traffic to steal Bitcoins. This malware has been found in the wild, along with numerous reports of stolen coins. The malware, which comes disguised as an app to send and receive payments on Bitcoin Stealth Addresses, instead covertly monitors all web traffic in order to steal login info for Bitcoin wallets."

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Re:Slashcott! by TubeSteak · 2014-02-09 21:00 · Score: 4, Interesting

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