In what is being called one of the most ambitious cyberattacks affecting virtual currency to date, Chicago-based IT security services provider Trustwave has revealed that a crybercrime ring known as Pony botnet is using a Trojan virus to steal from 30 types of digital currency wallets.
Trustwave researchers found that credentials for approximately 700,000 digital wallet, email and desktop accounts have been compromised, and that roughly $220,000 had been confirmed stolen from 85 digital currency wallets as of the time of writing.
Ziv Mador, director of security research at Trustwave, told CoinDesk that consumer and merchant wallets were both affected, and that bitcoins, litecoins, primecoins and feathercoins had been stolen in the attack.
February 24, 2014 at 11:03PM
