As senior officials from China and the United States wrap up a series of talks in Washington about an array of economic issues, across town members of Congress probed the extent of Chinese efforts to steal intellectual property from tech companies and other U.S. businesses. "From defense contractors to manufacturing, no American company has been immune from the scourge of Chinese intellectual property theft," says Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania), the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight subcommittee.

Cyberoam, the leading global network security appliances company, today announced its Threat Research Labs (CTRL) has identified unreported truths on the Bitcoin mining malware that targets Skype users. Last week has seen several news articles being published following the malware’s ongoing campaign on Skype. Moreover, a slew of conversations among security industry community on this digital currency stealing malware planting botnets to work in bitcoin mining are on. Findings from Cyberoam Threats Research Labs go beyond this and divulge the modus-operandi adopted by the cyber attackers behind this malware while also providing insightful evidence on other risks that are not limited to Bitcoin mining alone.