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Bitcoin Miner Found in Malicious Google Play Apps
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28th April 2014, 08:59
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
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 |  Bitcoin Miner Found in Malicious Google Play Apps Mining for Bitcoins from a cellphone? How about Millions of cellphones all working together undercover on phones around the world? This week researchers found exactly that in the guise of a harmless wallpaper App containing the BadLepricon malware. Bitcoin mining places extreme processing demands on hardware, causing devices to slow down and generate much more heat than would be the case otherwise. http://www.hardocp.com/news/2014/04/...gle_play_apps/ |
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