An old ransomware program has reportedly been modified to steal an estimated 8.4 Bitcoins, currently worth over $60,000, from unsuspecting users. The way the malicious program works is by altering BTC address copied to users’ clipboards to their own. This allows the attackers to redirect payments. The attackers trick users into thinking that their transactions are associated with the intended addresses by using the same characters at the beginning and end of their cryptocurrency addresses as those the user copied. Several security software products have detected the ransomware program as “file-locking malware” due to ... (full story)