Copy-pasting Thief from a Copy-pasted Code

By Evgeny Ananin and Artem Semenchenko | July 19, 2018 Crypto-currencies are continuing to gain popularity among people who have nothing to do with Information Technologies, even after the significant price drop suffered recently. In fact, the total capitalization of the largest crypto-currency still exceeds $100 Billion. And where there is money, there are criminals.
 
 One of the ways of collecting dishonest earnings is through malware. This way has become easier every year, especially since there is no shortage of source code generously being provided on the Internet these days.
 
In this article we will review a representative of the clipboard-substitution malware family. This sample has a distinctive feature: it relies on 10,000+ existing bitcoin addresses to trick even the most suspicious users who are used to checking the beginning and the end of their bitcoin wallets.
 
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