New worm turns PCs into Bitcoin miners

A new worm is threatening to turn computers it infects into miners for the Internet currency Bitcoin, a computer security firm warned Wednesday night (Manila time). Trend Micro said TDL4, a variant of the TDSS malware family that has become notorious for infecting a system’s boot sector to avoid detection, can propagate itself with a worm component. “In the past we’ve reported a couple of …

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