Motherboard, December, December 12, 2016
A new virtual currency that claims to be more anonymous than bitcoin, known as Zcash, is being used by cybercriminals who are allegedly installing malware on unsuspecting users’ computers and forcing them to mine Zcash for the criminals’ own profit. Kaspersky Lab security researcher Aleks Goste tells Motherboard that roughly 1,000 possibly infected computers have been identified as victims to this scheme. This many computers mining Zcash could generate as much as $75,000 a year in income for cybercriminals.
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