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Malware that turns computers into Bitcoin miners

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new spam message campaign being transmitted via Skype contains malware capable of using an infected computer to mine for Bitcoins. The average click rate for the rogue URL is high, at over 2,000 clicks per hour. Most of potential victims live in Italy then Russia, Poland, Costa Rica, Spain, Germany, Ukraine and others. The malware has the fingerprints of script kids, rather than sophisticated hackers, the researchers say. Most anti-malware programs cannot detect the malware.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/04/malware-that-turns-computers-into.html

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