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Botnet of Over 100K Devices Used to DDoS Electrum Servers

Malwarebytes Labs’ research team estimates the amount of stolen funds has increased to $4.6 million. The malicious actors behind the DDoS attacks against Electrum Bitcoin wallet users have switched to a new malware loader for their botnet Trojan. The ElectrumDoSMiner Trojan used to flood the Electrum nodes with requests is now disseminated with a not yet documented malware loader dubbed BeamWinHTTP. The number of malicious binaries designed to download the Trojan could very well be in the hundreds.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/botnet-of-over-100k-devices-used-to-ddos-electrum-servers/

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