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23 Sep '12, 6pm

FBI on Bitcoin,between cybercrime opportunity & digital choice

FBI on Bitcoin,between cybercrime opportunity & digital choice

Of course the statement “No one is safe” is also valid for cyber criminals, their great enemies are also groups of hacker who are specializing in the theft of this digital currency. In the past, hackers have already implemented malware, such as Infostealer.Coinbit, able to steal bitcoin from the e-wallet installed on the infected machine. Another sensible problem that affect the Bitcoin payment model is the counterfeiting of bitcoin, or better saying the possibility to auto produce bitcoins in illegal way. This opportunity is of great interest, according official source of FBI hackers and criminals have already tried to compromise cluster of machines at an unidentified Midwestern university in an attempt to manufacture bitcoins. Conclusions Bitcoin and other payment systems peer2peer have introduced a revolutionary and uncomfortable concept of decentralization of the curre...

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