How secure are your bitcoins? From
Information Week:
That rise in value has driven hackers to attack online wallet
services that store bitcoins. "Each of these companies had been
operating officially for only a few months, yet already had entrusted to
them millions of dollars that are now in the hands of cybercrooks,"
Paul Ducklin, head of technology for Sophos in the Asia Pacific region,
said Tuesday in a blog post.
Malware writers have also taken a keen interest in bitcoins, with
some -- especially Russian gangs -- modifying their crimeware tools to
identify and steal any bitcoins found on infected PCs. "There are
numerous malware families today that either perform Bitcoin mining or
directly steal the contents of victims' Bitcoin wallets, or both,"
according to a blog post from Robert Lipovsky, a researcher at security
firm ESET.
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