Earlier on Friday reported Säkerhet24 about botnet Zero Access where upwards 16,000 hijacked computers including Swedish used to create Bitcoinpengar. A similar case is now reported from Threat Track Security.
Class=”paragraphIntro”> Fareit is the name on a program that infects computers – especially if the computer owner visits a certain Russian porn site. Fareit can cause trouble, for example by thief read the infected computer’s address book. But Fareits specialty is digging for money.
Fareit is namely often carriers of the program that performs “mining” for internet currency Bitcoin. Bitcoinpengar distributed free of charge, but only to users that solves a complicated math problem. Putting your computer to do it is called “mining”. Solve the problem to get 50 bitcoins – nearly 39 000 with today’s exchange rate. The problems to be solved become more and more difficult with time. The plan is namely that the number of new bitcoins should gradually decrease until it becomes completely stop. It is now almost impossible to solve the problems of a single personal computer , even if there are custom circuit for bitcoin mining. Those who are behind Fareit-infection is split the problem into smaller pieces which are distributed to the infected computers. When the computers are ready with their deliverables, they send them back to the source over the internet. The results are compiled and tested and gives possibly a pot with Bitcoins. Fareit discovered by Threat Track Security. 
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