Researchers discover Twitter-controlled bitcoin bot

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Irene Poetranto

Published: August 29, 2011Tags: Botnets, Malware

Source: PCMag

Security firm F-Secure has discovered a bot that compromises Twitter accounts to help in the generation of Bitcoins. Bitcoin is a decentralized virtual currency that was formed by programmers in 2009, and is generated by programming computers to calculate highly complex math problems.

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