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Users of the Electrum Bitcoin Wallet are being drafted into a botnet used for distributed denial of service attacks, the security firm Malwarebytes says, adding that this came after users were initially prompted to download a bogus update that stole their digital currencies.

Malicious attackers have used the GitHub code repository for hosting credit card skimmers which are known as Magecart, the security firm Malwarebytes says, adding that new e-commerce websites are being attacked every day.

A number of legitimate websites have been compromised and are spreading Windows malware to users through fake alerts for browser updates that resemble the original to a marked degree.