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Pickpocket Targets Wallets at Bitcoin Forum

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Jun

2011

Our Threat Research team analyzed a Bitcoin wallet.dat trojan today. Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009. We detect the threat as Trojan-PSW:W32/CoinBit.A. Here’s a screenshot of the GUI: (SHA-1 c4f6c921aa77fbb7f2b616a22ee7d4578f8ccf44) It’s not very professional looking. But that’s not the real point. This is a snatch and grab. Before the window is rendered, the […]

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Bitcoin “wallet” hacked – heisted $500K?

17

Jun

2011

Old western cowboys beware, this heist didn’t happen with a stagecoach at gunpoint, it’s a new era out there. A user, going by the username allinvain reports he had 25,000 Bitcoins (BTC) stolen when his computer was infected. At the current BTC exchange rate, that haul would net about $500,000. Not too shabby for a […]

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All your Bitcoins are ours.

17

Jun

2011

Malware authors move fast. Following on from the previous blog post on Bitcoin botnet mining, we have seen a recent Trojan in the wild targeting Bitcoin wallets. The Trojan is Infostealer.Coinbit and it has one motive: to locate your Bitcoin wallet.dat file and email it to the attacker. This is not surprising considering the potential […]

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