Bitcoin aficionados were hit with double whammy Wednesday after China’s largest Bitcoin exchange, BTC China Exchange, stopped accepting Chinese Yuan. Security experts warned that a new variant of the Gameover malware, which is based on Zeus banking Trojan, has begun targeting Bitcoin exchanges. The Chinese central bank’s Bitcoin crackdown sparked a retaliatory series of distributed denial-of-service attacks that disrupted the website of the People’s Bank of China. BTC China CEO: “We’re still operating a bitcoin exchange in China, legally, and we’re still allowing people to deposit and withdraw renminbi””]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/bitcoin-hit-by-gameover-malware-chinese-crackdown