According to a recent discovery by Trend Micro the security company, an element having the characteristics of a PC worm belonging to the notorious TDL4 rootkit program is playing a role within Bitcoin collections.
The company's researchers elaborated that TDL4 represented an extremely familiar variation of the TDSS group of malicious software known for getting past identification by anti-virus programs as it contaminated the target computer's boot sector.
These same researchers noticed that TDL4 displayed proliferation behavior via a worm-like element which had been identified as WORM_OTORUN.ASH.
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