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Title: 2013-07-19 IM - Bitcoin Mining Affiliate Program Pays Per Mass Malware Infection Post by: btceic on July 20, 2013, 02:13:12 AM http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/33552/bitcoin-mining-affiliate-program-pays-per-mass-malware-infection/
Quote Security researcher Brian Krebs took a look at the well-structured FeodalCash initiative, which pays people to install malware that turns machines into bots for mining machines for the Bitcoin virtual currency. Mining is the hardware-intensive (but not, strictly speaking, illegal) process of creating new Bitcoins by adding transaction records to Bitcoin's public ledger of past transactions. Title: Re: 2013-07-19 IM - Bitcoin Mining Affiliate Program Pays Per Mass Malware Infection Post by: odolvlobo on July 20, 2013, 02:43:48 AM "Mining is the hardware-intensive (but not, strictly speaking, illegal) process of creating new Bitcoins ..."
"Strictly speaking"? Title: Re: 2013-07-19 IM - Bitcoin Mining Affiliate Program Pays Per Mass Malware Infection Post by: qwk on July 20, 2013, 01:48:57 PM "Strictly speaking"? Not-quite-correct wording. Probably the author wanted to express that the malware just consumes resources without doing any of the traditional "bad stuff". |