Trojan Disguised as Trend Micro Component Drops Bitcoin-Mining Malware
Gelo Abendan
2012-12-07
http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/trojan-disguised-as-trend-micro-component-drops-bitcoin-mining-malware/...
This downloaded package contains a bitcoin miner application created by Ufasoft.
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Bitcoin is considered digital currency and can be used to pay certain transactions online. This attack is timely because of the news that Bitcoin Central has been approved by the law to function as a bank where exchange from Euro and Bitcoins are now possible.
For the past years, there have been cases wherein systems are infected with Bitcoin-mining malware and turning them into unwilling “miners”. In turn, these (systems) churn Bitcoins for the benefit of the bad guys while the affected users are left in the dark. Besides generating profit for its authors, this malware consumes too much of the system’s resources. In sudden slowdown of the system always check your running processes and search for unknown running application. This occurrence maybe caused by a possible infection of Bitcoin mining activity.
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