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By now, most of us know that when surfing the Web we shouldn't click on ads promising us new ways to lose weight without dieting, read emails about magic pills to boost our "egos" or even click on Twitter links about the "shocking" pictures some friend supposedly found of us online.

By now, most of us know that when surfing the Web we shouldn't click on ads promising us new ways to lose weight without dieting, read emails about magic pills to boost our "egos" or even click on Twitter links about the "shocking" pictures some friend supposedly found of us online...

A data breach is commonly referenced as the release of data from a system without the knowledge or consent of its owner. Trend Micro describes this data as proprietary in nature.

The Bitcoin dodge was similar to scams that involve someone claiming to have a million dollars to invest and offering the target a portion of the money to do it, said LogRhythm's Greg Foss. "This is the New Age version of that, where it's attacking users of Bitcoin. We can tell it was very targeted, because all the people we've seen affected by this are registered Bitcoin users."

Some countries suffer disproportionately from malware infections and cybercrime, and Windows XP could exacerbate the problem