Malware steals bitcoins
Recently, you might’ve heard that the authourities are chasing down against bitcoins and that caused a bit of a media attention. But now, a new malware called Infostealer.Coinbit (according to Symantec) is a trojan that was designed to steal (possibly) all of your bitcoins. Here’s how it works: Once the trojan is in your system, it starts invading your bitcoin wallet . Then it emails your wallet’s crypto-key to the attacker in Poland and finally the attacker or creator can unencypt the key, leading to all of your bitcoins snatched.
So if you want to avoid that, Symantec recommends that you use an “impossible” key to prevent your wallet against invasion.
More of that: http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/06/new-malware-steals-your-bitcoin.ars
Malware info: http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2011-061615-3651-99
17 Jun 2011, 6:45 pm
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17 Jun 2011, 7:27 pm
ooooor…. you can just NOT be retarded….
only 2 ways to get a virus… go to a website that tries to run a java applet on you… which then you have to accept….
or the more common one, downloading a binary and running it….
aka, dont download exe’s off of porn websites….
18 Jun 2011, 4:51 am
I agree with ztrain
Symantec… Ugh I hate that company and their horribly bloated anti-virus
18 Jun 2011, 6:08 am
Well I decided to post it anyway since it’s unusual but not suprising for someone to make a malware that steals your bitcoins. It’s a sign that bitcoins is becomming popular like Internet 2011.
09 Sep 2011, 8:48 pm
Is anyone here still taking part of Bitcoin in any fashion? Mining, investing, etc? It’d be interesting to see! (I’ve been in it ever since ztrain posted about it, lol)
10 Sep 2011, 3:09 pm
yea, i wrote some code to copy peoples wallet.dat files to an ftp
oh and i still mine bitcoins :p
10 Sep 2011, 3:11 pm
I’m still mining on my 5850, fixing to get my friends to double the profits
17 Sep 2011, 5:38 pm
sooo should my wallet file be in programfiles/bitcoin ? and is it called wallet? goddamn I hope im just overlooking it
17 Sep 2011, 11:15 pm
%appdata%/Bitcoin/wallet.dat
17 Sep 2011, 11:26 pm
How does BitCoin work?
18 Sep 2011, 3:29 am
@ ztrain ahh thank you so much
@ skullabyss prepare for a very long read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
18 Sep 2011, 5:26 am
you’d just as well assume its magic, thats what I do