{"id":10189,"date":"2013-05-14T19:57:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T00:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10189"},"modified":"2013-05-14T22:17:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T03:17:16","slug":"new-skype-malware-spreading-at-2000-clicks-per-hour-makes-money-by-using-victims-machines-to-mine-bitcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10189","title":{"rendered":"New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour makes money by using victims\u2019 machines to mine Bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To avoid this threat and others like it, don\u2019t click on random links you receive on Skype. You\u2019ll be doing yourself a favor, helping stop the spread of malware, and ensuring criminals get a smaller pay day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2013\/04\/05\/new-skype-malware-spreading-at-2000-clicks-per-hour-makes-money-by-using-victims-machines-to-mine-bitcoins\/\">New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour makes money by using victims\u2019 machines to mine Bitcoins &#8211; The Next Web<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least it&#8217;s just bitcoin mining and not stealing credentials.\u00a0 This is why I always have three performance monitors on my dashboard; CPU usage, bandwidth, and memory.\u00a0 With this piece of malware you would immediately see a problem because the CPU monitor shouldn&#8217;t be full of color.\u00a0 Then simply take the PC offline and do some investigation or bring it to someone.\u00a0 On Windows machines there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc749115.aspx\">Perfmon<\/a> to look at these performance monitors.\u00a0 Just like a car has its fuel and temperature guages, computer users would be far more secure getting used to performance monitor guages.\u00a0 I often wonder why distributors don&#8217;t display these somewhere as a default option much like they have for the clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To avoid this threat and others like it, don\u2019t click on random links you receive on Skype. You\u2019ll be doing yourself a favor, helping stop the spread of malware, and ensuring criminals get a smaller pay day. via New Skype &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[742,347,391],"class_list":["post-10189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-issues","tag-bitcoin","tag-malware","tag-skype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10199,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions\/10199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}