Increasingly desperate to cash in on the sky-rocketing price of Bitcoin these days, gangs of cybercriminals have designed a new malware that’s infecting computers via Skype in an attempt to build a botnet massive enough to start mining the virtual currency.
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new spam message campaign being transmitted via Skype contains malware capable of using an infected computer to mine for Bitcoins. The malware, identified as Trojan.Win32.Jorik.IRCbot.xkt.
According to Kaspersky Lab, the average click rate for the rogue URL is high, at over 2,000 clicks per hour, and the creators of this malware had used it to seize control of hundreds of computers in Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Spain and other countries.
The malware spreads itself by infecting the Skype VoIP program, using the age old
