2013-07-19 IM - Bitcoin Mining Affiliate Program Pays Per Mass Malware Infection

[btceic]

http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/33552/bitcoin-mining-affiliate-program-pays-per-mass-malware-infection/

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.

[odolvlobo]

"Mining is the hardware-intensive (but not, strictly speaking, illegal) process of creating new Bitcoins ..."

"Strictly speaking"?

[qwk]

"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".