Malware attack on 400k PCs caused by backdoored BitTorrent app

Posted on Mar 16, 2018

Malware attack on 400k PCs caused by backdoored BitTorrent app

A recent malware campaign that attempted to install a resource-draining currency miner on more than 400,000 computers in 12 hours was caused by a malicious backdoor that was sneaked into a BitTorrent application called Mediaget, a Microsoft researcher said Tuesday.

Source: arstechnica.com