F-Secure Discover Twitter-Controlled Bitcoin Bot
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Security firm F-Secure has discovered a bot that compromises Twitter accounts to help in the generation of Bitcoins.
Bitcoin is a decentralized virtual currency that was formed by programmers in 2009, and is generated by programming computers to calculate highly complex math problems. The more computing power you have, the faster you can create Bitcoins; this is why Bitcoin rigs often look like massive sculptures of connected servers.
According to an F-Secure blog post, the Twitter-based command below generates a bot that can control the Twitter user's computer and add it to a bitcoin mining rig. F-Secure identified bots generated with this command as Trojan.Generic.KD.
