Windows Torrent File Malware Can Swap Out Crypto Addresses, Researcher Warns

New malware posing as a movie file from torrent website The Pirate Bay (TPB) can manipulate web pages and replace Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) addresses, computing magazine Bleeping Computer reported Jan. 12.

The malware — originally thought to inject advertising on Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and in search results — in fact performs multiple actions, some of which were discovered by the publication’s own researcher Lawrence Abrams.

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