New Mac OS Trojan Produces BitCoins 247
angry tapir writes about an interesting use for malware. From the Techworld article: "A newly identified Mac OS X Trojan bundles a component that leverages the processing power of video cards to generate Bitcoins, a popular type of virtual currency. The new Trojan was dubbed DevilRobber by antivirus vendors and is being distributed together with several software applications via BitTorrent sites."
Re:Joke's on them. (Score:3, Informative)
I would imagine that they're being mined because they have value.
Re:Follow the Trail (Score:5, Informative)
It's not perfect anonymity, but there are ways to stay safer by using multiple BTC addresses and such.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity [bitcoin.it]