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Home   »   Archives for March 24, 2014

Ransomware and Bitcoin Theft Combine in BitCrypt

  • Posted on:March 24, 2014 at 6:45 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware, Ransomware
  • Author:
    Rhena Inocencio (Threat Response Engineer)
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CryptoLocker and other such ransomware threats have been a significant problem for some time now, but recently we’ve seen a new addition to the ransomware scene. This new threat, which calls itself BitCrypt, adds a unique angle to ransomware: it steals funds from various cryptocurrency wallets as well. We have identified two distinct variants of…

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Tags: bitcoin theftBitCryptransomware

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