8.3 million is now the number of digital attacks targeting the notorious Bitcoin, the most prevalent of the virtual currency on the Internet. According to the study “Financial cyber threats in 2013” by Kaspersky Lab, these events were extremely popular in 2013 and the number of attacks increased by over 2.5 times.

In early 2013, based on the exchange rate, a Bitcoin corresponded to 13.6 dollars. By December, it reached record levels, exceeding 1200 dollars. During the year, there have been several transititions, but from April 2013 onwards, the unit price of the virtual currency has not fallen below 80 dollars. Inevitably, this attracted the attention of fraudsters. Bitcoins and often easy prey for digital criminals. If users store bitcoins on their computers in an unencrypted form, criminals can but steal the file to the “digital wallet” to extract information about the “money” inside it and gain access to the victim’s account.