BREAKING: Pony Trojan steals $220,000 From Wallets
Trojan Pony Botnet stole $220,000 from online wallets. A trojan named “Pony” has been blamed for stealing more than $220,000 worth of cryptocurrencies from users’ online wallets. Many of those users may still be unaware of their loss. Please note that a client wallet hosted on your PC or phone is not affected by this security alert. The trojan Pony, which operated as an advanced botnet between September 2013 and mid-January 2014, stole approximately 700,000 online credentials and successfully compromised 85 online wallets containing a range of cryptocoins – including Bitcoin. Since....
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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:....
In what is being called one of the most ambitious cyberattacks affecting virtual currency to date, Chicago-based IT security services provider Trustwave has revealed that a crybercrime ring known as Pony botnet is using a Trojan virus to steal from 30 types of digital currency wallets. Trustwave researchers found that credentials for approximately 700,000 digital wallet, email and desktop accounts have been compromised, and that up to $220,000 had been stolen from 85 digital currency wallets as of the time of writing. Ziv Mador, director of security research at Trustwave, told CoinDesk....
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