Bitcoin. © Reuters / Andy Clark
Merdeka.com - Are you one of the miners or owners of virtual currencies like Bitcoin? Watch out, Pony's bot is ready to steal your money!
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As reported by The Hacker News (25/2), a cybercrime group mentioned capable of infecting hundreds of computers known to be used to access virtual currency like Bitcoin. As a result of this, USD 220 in the form of Bitcoin and other currencies also disappeared.
This was reported by researchers from Trustwave. Mentioned, a botnet named Pony has a powerful keylogger malware capable of recording every keyboard and mouse movements target, so that the wallet and Bitcoin target account data became a victim.
Pony is also known to be driven remotely and very easily controlled. Mentioned, there is no prevention technique that can overcome this one bot.
"Not only stole 700 thousand accounts, Pony also able to steal USD 220 thousand Bitcoin, LiteCoin, FeatherCoin, and other coin-coin," wrote the researchers. [nvl]