New worm turns PCs into Bitcoin miners - Technology - GMA News Online - Latest Philippine News: "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 attacks involving malware that turns affected systems into Bitcoin miners, and we also said that cybercriminals will increasingly do so in the future. Recently we encountered another malware – a familiar and known malware family — that turns the system into a Bitcoin miner," it said in a blog post.
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