Behind the scenes: Electrum hackers steal $4M with Bitcoin phishing attacks

Behind the scenes: Electrum hackers steal $4M with Bitcoin phishing attacks
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2019-4-16 18:02

Electrum Bitcoin wallet users have lost 771 BTC (approximately $4 million) since late December 2018, in an ongoing series of targeted phishing attacks. According to research released by Malwarebytes Labs, fraudsters were able to trick unsuspecting users into downloading a malicious version of the wallet by exploiting a weakness in the software.

In February, the developers behind Electrum decided to exploit the same flaw in their own software to redirect users to download the latest patched version. Then, in March, things got worse and developers started exploiting another unknown vulnerability, essentially attacking vulnerable clients to keep them from connecting to bad nodes, which…

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