Bitcoin Botnet Ensnares Numerous Pirate Gamers

Pirate gamers of a huge number recently got caught within one botnet mining Bitcoins, when they took down Watch Dogs a widely played Internet game that got leaked, published theregister.com dated May 27, 2014.

There were nearly 40,000 users comprising leechers and seeders who actively downloaded the tainted online game, in a torrent version, an additional 18,440 times while accessing just one website on May 23, 2014.

Pirates described the torrent content as mimicking SkidRow a well-known torrent brand, on online sites, while it unnoticeably planted one Bitcoin miner as well as one active replica of Watch Dogs.

To run on any Windows PC, the bitcoin miner used dual executables loaded onto a folder named AppData\Roaming\OaPja while visibly lowered the system's working as also heavily consumed CPU power.

The torrent being undesirable, the majority of sources have eliminated it because a few were seeing blue-screens, while a few were watching the slackening of their systems' performance.

Security analysts are yet to find out the identities or physical bases of the con artists responsible for the attack.

Notably, Bitcoin mining attackers prefer to target gamers since the latter usually operate sophisticated GPUs (graphical processing units) while avoid anti-virus programs that drain system resources.

Catalin Cosoi Chief Strategist at BitDefender commented that in case a gamer unknowingly downloaded a leaked copy of a game through any peer-to-peer sharing or Torrent service, he could potentially get victimized with a money-rewarding virus packaged with one authentic miner of GPU. Theregister.com published this.

It is advisable that gamers eschew torrenting Watch Dogs to be spared of having their computers forcibly be involved in a trafficking operation such as the machines muling for coins all over the Web, security specialists explain.

Indeed, the above kind of assault should be spotted without difficulty as also because its link is understood as being with just one lone entity of torrent form, it'd be hazardless to trace as well as remove it.

Meanwhile, over the past few years, cyber-criminals have been launching numerous assaults to mine Bitcoins by targeting sophisticated GPUs stretching further onto the absurdly, extremely slackened, digital video players.

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