Report: Bitcoin Targeted in 22% of Financial Malware Attacks
Security firm Kaspersky Lab has found that bitcoin is the target in more than one fifth of all malware attacks aimed at victims' money. According to Kaspersky's latest threat report, entitled 'IT Threat Evolution Q2 2014', bitcoin mining malware accounted for 14% of attacks in the second quarter of 2014, while bitcoin wallet stealers accounted for 8%. Keyloggers, which can be used to compromise both bitcoin and banking services, also made the list, with 4% of all attacks attributed to various forms of key logging malware. Traditional banking malware still leads the way with 74%, but....
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