A new piece of malware called CoinThief monitors your web traffic in order to steal your bitcoins.
The malware targets Apple's Mac OS X software and once installed on your system, the malware - which disguises itself as a bitcoin wallet app - can monitor all your web traffic in order to steal login credentials for online bitcoin wallets.
The malware was discovered by SecureMac, a security company specialising in Apple systems, which identified the Trojan horse as OSX/CoinThief.A.
StealthBit app
The software has been disguised by its authors as a legitimate bitcoin wallet called StealthBit which allows users to send and receive bitcoin transaction using what are called stealth addresses which allow for more anonymous payments.
Both the valid and malicious versions of StealthBit were available from the open source software repository GitHub - but the page has now been removed.
When users download the malicious version, OSX/CoinThief.A acts as a dropper and installs browser extensions on the Chrome and Safari browsers which monitor all your internet traffic without your knowledge
作者: _Dean 時間: 2014-2-27 02:22 AM
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