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RSA FraudAction News Flash: Trojan Add-On Forces Zombie PCs into Slavery to Mine Bitcoins « Speaking of Security – The RSA Blog and Podcast.

RSA is reporting that SpyEye and Zeus trojans have been enhanced to use botnet zombie computers to mine Bitcoins.

This article provide a nice introduction to Bitcoin if you are not familiar with this form of digital currency and then discusses the Bitcoin “stealing” enhancements to the two botnet trojans.