Bitcoin wallet Mac OS x
A new Trojan Horse targeting Apple Mac OS X spies on web traffic of users and attempt to steal Bitcoins. SecureMac says the malware referred as "OSX/CoinThief.A" is found in the wild. Several users have reported that their Bitcoins have been stolen.
The malware hosted in Github with the name "StealthBit" disguising itself as an app to send and receive payments on Bitcoin Stealth Addresses. A link to this project had also been posted in reported that his 20 Bitcoins(current value is around $10k) have been stolen by this malware app.
"I foolishly installed 'StealthBit' Anyone else find this to be a virus? The Post is still online.. I found 1 comment suggesting the possibility. The user posted in the reddit.
Upon running the app for the first time, it installs browser extensions for Safari and Google Chrome and runs continually a program in background that looking for Bitcoin Wallet login credentials. The malware then steals Bitcoin login credentials, username and Unique identifier of infected Mac.
At the time of writing, the malicious project have been removed from the GitHub.
It appears this is not the first time Mac users being fooled such kind of malicious apps. One user shared his experience that he was scammed by similar app called "Bitvanity" which was also hosted in Github, stole 20 BTC from his account.
