Bitcoin stealing malware distributed on download.com for nearly a year

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March 14th, 2018 By Robert Abel
 
Bitcoin stealing malware that swaps user accounts with that of the attacker was found to be hosted on Download.com servers for nearly a year.
 
ESET researchers found three trojanized applications hosted on download.cnet.com,  the163th most visited site in the world according to Alexa rankings, and estimated that as of March 13, the attacker managed to steal the equivalent of $80,000 USD, according to a recent blog post.
 
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