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Cybercriminals Have Their Eyes Set on Bitcoin

Sep

2011

It seems like Bitcoin is gaining popularity not only in the computing industry, but in the threat landscape as well.We’ve recently reported a couple of attacks involving malware that installs a Bitcoin mining application into affected systems. Apart from turning systems into unwilling “miners”, such malware also disrupt usage, since the mining process takes up […]

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Bitcoin Mining Botnet Found with DDoS Capabilities

Sep

2011

Trend Micro recently came across a botnet that turns an infected system into an involuntary Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin is a digital currency that uses peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to track and verify transactions. Bitcoins are generated by a free Bitcoin miner application.The malware detected as BKDR_BTMINE.MNR installs the mining software onto affected systems. It uses the […]

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KOOBFACE Propagates Via Torrent P2P File Sharing

Aug

2011

The KOOBFACE botnet became known for using popular social network sites as vector for propagation and abusing these platforms for malicious purposes. Currently, it has been observed that KOOBFACE does not actively propagate via social networks, but rather propagates via a torrent peer-to-peer network through Trojanized shared application files.Based on our research, we found a […]

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