Bitcoin Botnet Affects Thousands After Cracked Watch Dogs Download

Tens of thousands of pirate gamers have been enslaved in a Bitcoin botnet after downloading a cracked copy of popular game Watch Dogs. A torrent of the infected title, which supposedly has had its copy-protection removed, had almost 40,000 active users (seeders and leachers) and was downloaded a further 18,440 times on 23 May on one site alone.

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