CoinThief Malware Stealing Bitcoins from Mac Users
A trojan called CoinThief is stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of BTC from unsuspecting Mac users. Contrary to popular belief, Macs do in fact get viruses. It's just that 91% of the world uses Windows while only 7% of the world uses OSX (The remaining percentage uses Linux). As such, virus makers have more incentive to create malware for Windows, because it simply makes sense to target the majority of computer users. This is generally great news for Mac users, since they remain virtually virus free. However, it can make them pretty complacent about security, and when a Mac virus....
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