A Symantec security researcher is reporting the discovery of a trojan that infects and adds users' computers to a processing swarm designed to brute force decrypt the bitcoin electronic currency system, generating as much as $150.00 per infected computer every month.


https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/researcher-discovers-distributed-bitcoin-cracking/
A Symantec security researcher is reporting the discovery of a trojan that infects and adds users' computers to a processing swarm designed to brute force decrypt the bitcoin electronic currency system, generating as much as $150.00 per infected computer every month.
Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:36:00 GMT
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/researcher-discovers-distributed-bitcoin-cracking/

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