A 17-year-old schoolboy arrested by Japanese police expecting to be the author of a Malware that steals Cryptocurrency Monacoin wallet Private key passwords. He targetted Monacoin a cryptocurrency based on Japanese text and it is quite familiar in Japan.
“Japanese police said he created the malware last year October to steal the cryptocurrency wallet passwords and transfer currencies to another account. He is partially denying the charges saying it was intentional.”
Authorities stated that the trojanized app is a bulletin board to view the Monacoin currency exchange rate in real time. Reported Mainichi.
An employee (31) in Edogawa-Ku, Tokyo downloads and install the app immediately after the boy’s post, later he noticed 170 Monacoin (equivalent to about 15,000 yen at that rate) was stolen from his account.
