Pony/CoinThief: Apple iOS and OS X Bug the Target?
The pony/CoinThief Botnet stole 700,000 online credentials and heisted $220,000 from online cryptocurrency wallets. Reports of Apple's urgent promises to fix a bug that allows intruders to spy on financial, email, and other personal data in OSX have been in the media since last week. Now researchers have identified the Pony Trojan, which, as coincidence would have it, is known to have spied on financial, email and other personal data via web forms. In the process, Pony heisted more than 700,000 online account credentials, as well as stealing $220,000 from online cryptocoin wallets. notice:....
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