Game pirates 'donate' compute power to Bitcoin miners

The Register
Sep 23, 2014, 1:27 am484 ptsHotTop
Repack cracks foists Bitcoin miner hack Hundreds of video game pirates have generously, if inadvertently, donated their compute resources to virus writers by downloading Bitcoin miner-infected torrent listings.…

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