The crypto environment has been growing from all points of view: from the number of initiatives to the value of cryptocurrencies. But, sadly, also in the amount of malwares and ransomwares destined to the extraction and theft of criptodivisas.

Recently it was announced by the security company Kaspersky Lab the existence of a Trojan virus that modifies the direction of the bitcoin portfolios, diverting the amounts sent in the transactions of users to hacker portfolios. The name of this stealth malware is CryptoShuffler.

This virus operates in the following way: it is stored in the memory of the computer, and in the clipboard (the tool that hosts the temporary data when copying / pasting information). In this way, when the user copies an address from a portfolio, the CryptoShuffler identifies it and modifies it for another, causing you to hit the hacker's address at the end. If you are not careful enough to distinguish the change in direction, this would result in the diversion of funds to an undesired portfolio.

CryptoShuffler has been operating since 2016, and during this year several victims were registered because of this malware. Within 1 year the Trojan has accumulated about 23 BTC, equivalent to almost $ 170 thousand dollars at the time this note is written. According to KasperskyLab, this Trojan operates not only in bitcoin portfolios, but also in the portfolios of ether, monero, zcash, dogecoin, dash, and several other cryptocurrencies.