Trojan Disguised as Legitimate Applications Uses Infected PCs to Mine Litecoins

Jan

2014

Security researchers have uncovered a piece of malware thats designed to mine Litecoins, an open source P2P digital currency thats similar to Bitcoin.

According to Doctor Web, the Trojan, which theyve dubbed Trojan.BtcMine.221, is disguised as legitimate applications such as…

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