TEMPO.CO, Jakarta- Research on financial cyber threats in 2013 conducted by Kaspersky Lab, shows financial malwares that target Bitcoins have become more popular last year. The number of attacks on the crypto-currency has increased more than 2.5 times and had reached the total of 8.3 million incidents.
"In 2013, Bitcoin value has increased more than 85 times and this certainly has attracted the attention of cyber criminals. Until the end of 2013, the number of users who had been attacked by malwares that targeted Bitcoins has started to catch up with the number of users who had been attacked by more conventional banking cyber threats," said Sergey Lozhkin, Senior Security Researcher, Kaspersky Lab, in a release that Tempo received last Thursday.
Tools that cyber criminals use to steal Bitcoins could be divided into two categories. The first category covers programs that have been created to steal "wallet" files. The second one consists of applications that have been designed to install softwares that "mining" Bitcoins from computers that have been infected.
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