A group of cyber criminals has used hundreds of thousands of infected computers of digital currency holders to filch approximately $220,000 worth of Bitcoins and other virtual currencies. Trustwave have uncovered the Bitcoin Heist that was accomplished by the computers infected with a new class of malware that has been dubbed as ‘Pony’, a very powerful type of Spying Keylogger Malware with very dangerous features. The security firm has found that the botnet has infected over 700,000 accounts in four months, between September 2013 and mid-January 2014, and allowed criminals to control those accounts.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/02/pony-botnet-steals-220000-from-multiple.html