Trojan Goes After Bitcoins 344
Orome1 writes "Bitcoin has definitely caught the attention of criminals. Even though it has been calculated that the use of botnets for Bitcoin mining is still not quite as lucrative as renting them out for other purposes, targeting people who have them in their digital wallets is quite another matter. Symantec researchers have spotted in the wild a Trojan dedicated to this specific purpose. Named Infostealer.Coinbit, it searches for the Bitcoin wallet.dat file on the infected computer and sends it to the criminal(s)."
Re:mugging (Score:4, Interesting)
I don't think Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme [wikipedia.org]. It's not really an investment scheme at all. It's closer to a pyramid scheme [wikipedia.org] or possibly a just a simple con. After all, the more people "mining" Bitcoins, the less productive mining Bitcoins becomes. The early investors got Bitcoins faster and cheaper and as demand rises they can sell their Bitcoins that cost less to make for the same amount as the later, harder to make Bitcoins.