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Bitcoin Mining Botnet Found with DDoS Capabilities

04
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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Bitcoin Mining Malware

23
Aug
2011

For those unfamiliar, Bitcoin is a digital P2P currency (here’s a more detailed video explanation if interested) – people interact with it using locally or hosted “wallet” software. It should not come as much of a surprise that malware has been designed to target abuse of this digital currency the same as any other (e.g., […]

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