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Learning & News => News related to Crypto => Topic started by: MRM on September 04, 2020, 09:10:24 PM

Title: Research: New Malware Employs Tor and Bittorrent To Steal Bitcoin and Ether
Post by: MRM on September 04, 2020, 09:10:24 PM
A new trojan called Krypto Cibule uses infested computers’ power to mine cryptocurrency, steal crypto wallet files, and redirect incoming digital assets to a hacker address. The malware rides on the Tor network and the Bittorrent protocol to perform attacks, according to an extensive report by cybersecurity company, ESET.

“Krypto Cibule is spread through malicious torrents for ZIP files whose contents masquerade as installers for cracked or pirated software and games,” researchers Matthieu Faou and Alexandre Cote Cyr, detailed in their report published September 2.
Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/research-new-malware-employs-tor-and-bittorrent-to-steal-bitcoin-and-ether/
Title: Re: Research: New Malware Employs Tor and Bittorrent To Steal Bitcoin and Ether
Post by: TomPluz on September 05, 2020, 06:09:01 AM


This thing should have been zipped away into the outer space. Well, if there is one reality in our online and interconnected world is the very presence of virus, hacks, malwares, trojans and similar bad program with the intention of stealing other people's properties.
Title: Re: Research: New Malware Employs Tor and Bittorrent To Steal Bitcoin and Ether
Post by: highnayem34 on September 08, 2020, 01:16:00 PM
The malware is mostly active in the Czech Republic and Slovakia where it has been responsible for hundreds of attacks. Most victims downloaded the malware from files hosted on a torrent site popular in the two countries called uloz.to.