Trojan.BeamWinHTTP

Malware experts had discovered that the malware responsible for a DDoS attack against the Bitcoin wallet Electrum is called Trojan.BeamWinHTTP. Electrum is considered one of the most favored Bitcoins wallets available. This is what makes Electrum a good target for attacks meant to collect the Bitcoin cryptocurrency and send it to the wallets of the cybercriminals. The bigger attack suffered by Electrum was a devasting Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) that is affecting its servers is being performed since 2018 and has managed to infect 152,000 Bitcoin wallets and was short of $4.6 million of its reserves.

This is what makes Trojan downloaders threatening. By using a Trojan like Trojan.BeamWinHTTP the criminals can introduce various threats on an infected computer and gain access to its system, which allows them to perform any harmful action they please. However, an updated, dedicated anti-malware scanner can remove threats like Trojan.BeamWinHTTP and keep your machine clean.