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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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TLD4: Less hype, more history

Jul

2011

Quite rightly, such notables as Paul Ducklin and our own Randy Abrams have poured scorn on the idea of the “indestructible botnet”: indeed, Randy remarked:“Calling the botnet indestructible is tantamount to calling the Internet unsustainable . I suspect that, in time, we’ll discover the ‘T’ in TDL stands for ‘Titanic,’ and a currently unseen iceberg […]

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