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Saturday, March 15, 2014

The “Stolen” Mt.Gox Data Contained Malware That Robbed Users Of Bitcoin

Security researchers at Securelist have found that the data "stolen" from Mark Karpeles' computer actually contained a BTC-stealing Trojan that masqueraded as a back-end app for managing Mt.Gox trades. The app searched user directories for Bitcoin-related files - wallet.dat and bitcoin.conf - and uploaded them to a server that is now defunct. Read More


An interesting read via TechCrunch


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