Malware Alert! A Banking Email That Steals Cryptocurrencies
The cryptocurrency community is currently under threat! A new malware is reportedly making rounds on the internet, infecting computers and stealing cryptocurrency from compromised machines. The yet to be named malicious software was detected by Cyren, the internet security company. According to the company’s latest blog, published during the last week of January 2017, the malware disguises itself as an email communication from reputed banking institutions. These emails appear like fund transfer notifications, and they are found to originate from bots in the United States and Singapore. The....
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