September 23, 2013
New ransomware strain forces hapless users into becoming Bitcoin miners
Scammers are punting a strain of ransomware that puts compromised PCs to work mining Bitcoins after blocking all other activity on infected Windows computers.
“Ransomware is most commonly spread via drive-by downloads and Reveton especially has been seen working with some of the most notorious exploit kits available today,” writes Malwarebytes researcher Adam Kujawa in a blog post on the threat.
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