New Mac OS Trojan produces BitCoins

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angry tapir

on Monday October 31, 2011 @06:49PM

angry tapir writes "A newly identified Mac OS X Trojan bundles a component that leverages the processing power of video cards (GPUs) to generate Bitcoins, a popular type of virtual currency. The new Trojan was dubbed DevilRobber by antivirus vendors and is being distributed together with several software applications via BitTorrent sites."
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The bad penny, (Score:2)

by westlake (615356) writes:

Oh, joy, another bitcoin story.

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The bad penny, (Score:2)