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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Report: Bitcoin Miners being planted in programs
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Sat Nov 30 15:18:17 2013
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:51:57 -0800
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Report: Bitcoin Miners being planted in programs being surreptitiously
installed on users' computers
http://j.mp/1eBaID5 (Techienews)
"These miners surreptitiously carry out Bitcoin mining operations on the
user's system consuming valuable CPU time without explicitly asking
for user's consent. Because of the extensive mathematical calculations
involved, the mining operation consumes a lot of CPU resource and
renders the user's system almost useless for regular operations.
Malwarebytes first came across such an instance of a Bitcoin miner
when one of the users of its software requested for assistance on
November 22 through a forum post."
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