Posts Tagged ‘bitcoin’

Cryptocurrency is conquering the world rapidly. It is considered that the main distinctive features of cryptocurrency are decentralization, anonymity and security. However, deception, fraud, extortion and hacking are only some of the methods that can be used to steal  your cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin is the most famous cryptocurrency, and the oldest one. Previously, it could be mined using a home computer. It was even possible to use your laptop. Then the situation shifted to the use of GPUs as the complexity of cryptocurrency mining increased. At present, you need specialized intelligent equipment.

The technology of Blochkchain has been heard recently. Blockchain is a way of storing data or a digital register of transactions, transactions, contracts. In the blockroom you can store data about almost everything. Its main difference and undeniable advantage is that this registry is not stored in any one place. It is distributed among several hundreds and even thousands of computers all over the world.

Recently, bitcoin has become very popular, which has become the impetus for creating applications for bots, such as Gunbot. Unfortunately, FortiGuards Labs has opened a new phishing campaign that targets investors from bitcoins, offering Gunbot, a relatively new application for beatbox. It serves malicious Orcus RAT software, which leads to a loss of investment, and not vice versa.