Facebook Breaks Up Cryptocurrency Mining Botnet ‘Lecpetex’

By July 9, 2014Bitcoin Business

Facebook Breaks Up Cryptocurrency Mining Botnet ‘Lecpetex’

Facebook has successfully dismantled a major bitcoin botnet operated by a small team of cyber criminals based in Greece. The Lecpetex botnet managed to infect 250,000 computers. At its peak it compromised as many as 50,000 Facebook accounts. Lecpetex propagated through the social media platform using spam messages with malicious […]

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