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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Leak by gustgr · 2014-03-17 12:11 · Score: 5, Informative

The leak is real, nonetheless. I found my balance and transactions there.
Re:Really? by ttucker · 2014-03-17 12:24 · Score: 4, Informative

...except this was no different from someone doing the same thing to a bank. Your arguement is invalid
This is totally false. Almost all bank transactions are reversible in the case of fraud, no bitcoin transactions are ever reversible.