German police takes administrators Bitcoin-miningbotnet on

The German police has on Monday in cooperation with a antiterreureenheid two men arrested who are suspected of managing a botnet that Bitcoins were gemined. Also in China, people are arrested for fraud with Bitcoins.

The two men, along with a third suspect, who has not been arrested, 700.000 euros to Bitcoins have captured, writes Heise. Thus they are guilty of computer fraud. The suspects used, according to the police existing malware to infect computers. The two men are by the German federal police arrested with the help of the antiterreureenheid GSG 9. The Bitcoins in question are by the police seized, and through them to a Bitcoin wallet of the police.

In addition, in China, according to Xinhua three people arrested for Bitcoin fraud. They would be a Bitcoin exchange with the name of GBL have managed. In October closed the GBL suddenly its doors, where the arrested Chinese with the money of their customers vanished. With the sharply rising Bitcoin price also takes the interest of attackers in the crypto-currency.