Symantec Spots Trojan Targeting Bitcoin Digital Wallets

Symantec has uncovered a Trojan that appears to be targeting users of Bitcoin, a decentralized P2P-based online currency. Bitcoin consultants, however, downplayed the threat.
"The Trojan is Infostealer.Coinbit and it has one motive: to locate your Bitcoin wallet.dat file and email it to the attacker," Symantec said in a Friday blog post.
Bitcoin describes itself as "the first decentralized digital currency" (more info in the video below). Bitcoins are generated by users running a free app, which requires them to solve a cryptographic proof-of-work problem, or block. This process is known as Bitcoin mining and successful mining can earn someone up to 50 Bitcoins per block, which are stored in... »read more

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