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Title: [2014-08-07] Report: Bitcoin Targeted in 22% of Financial Malware Attacks
Post by: erono on August 07, 2014, 02:21:47 AM
http://www.coindesk.com/report-bitcoin-targeted-22-financial-malware-attacks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoinDesk+%28CoinDesk+-+The+Voice+of+Digital+Currency%29

Security firm Kaspersky Lab has found that bitcoin is the target in more than one fifth of all malware attacks aimed at victims’ money.

According to Kaspersky’s latest threat report, entitled ‘IT Threat Evolution Q2 2014’, bitcoin mining malware accounted for 14% of attacks in the second quarter of 2014, while bitcoin wallet stealers accounted for 8%.