Kaspersky: Mt. Gox Data Archive Contains Bitcoin-Stealing Malware

Posted by Unknown on Monday March 17, 2014 @12:04PM from the trusting-random-zip-files-considered-harmful dept.

itwbennett writes "An archive containing transaction records from Mt. Gox that was released on the Internet last week also contains bitcoin-stealing malware for Windows and Mac, say researchers at Kaspersky Lab who have analyzed the 620MB file called MtGox2014Leak.zip. The files masquerade as Windows and Mac versions of a custom, back-office application for accessing the transaction database of Mt. Gox. However, they are actually malware programs designed to search and steal Bitcoin wallet files from computers, Kaspersky security researcher Sergey Lozhkin said Friday in a blog post."

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Really? by SternisheFan · 2014-03-17 12:08 · Score: 3, Funny

Oh yes, I totally trust easily manipulated computer bits over paper money.
1. Re:Really? by zieroh · 2014-03-17 12:49 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Real coin has worked for thousands of years.
  Yeah. And over those thousands of years, real coins have proved impervious to all manner of theft.
  
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  People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.