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Cybersecurity analysts disclosed two attacks against one of the most secure Bitcoin (BTC) wallets ever, Electrum origin »
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Earlier this week, the popular Bitcoin wallet Electrum received a much-awaited update, with developers adding support for the Lightning Network. The latter allows for faster and cheaper BTC transactions, even as it remains under continuous development.
2020-6-29 17:07 | |
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Electrum Wallet, a popular wallet service, has recently announced to the world that it would start to support the Bitcoin Lightning Network. The founder of the company, Thomas Voegtlin, talked to the crypto media during a blockchain in Odessa, Ukraine, and affirmed that the launch of this new feature is very close now. According to […]
2019-7-6 01:14 | |
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The popular wallet service Electrum is soon to add official support for bitcoin's lightning network, its founder has told CoinDesk.
2019-7-5 15:30 | |
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Lightning Network support coming to Electrum, founder reveals
2019-7-6 13:51 | |
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Tether обеспечен фиатными средствами только на 74%, российский президент одобрил закон об изоляции интернета, платформа Bakkt купила криптохранилище, МВФ и всемирный банк обсудили крипторегулирование, в атаке на кошельки Electrum заподозрили украинских хакеров, сеть Bitcoin SV стала подвержена «атаке 51%», а биржа OKEx готовится выпустить свой токен.
2019-5-3 15:30 | |
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Today, May 2, 2019, marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 18. 0, the 18th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakomoto almost 10 years ago, and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2019-5-3 16:02 | |
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The botnet attacking Electrum has grown to 152,000 infected computers and has now stolen $4. 6 million in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, according to Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes states that it has been “closely monitoring” the attack against the Electrum Bitcoin wallet.
2019-5-1 14:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency community remains subject to a lot of potential scams in this day and age. Although that is nothing new, it would appear some of these attacks are a lot more successful than others.
2019-5-1 14:00 | |
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A report from Malware Bytes Labs, April 29, 2019, reveals the long-standing malware issue in the Electrum wallet has reached 152,000 hosts. Users were asked to update their wallets after which they were infected with a bug.
2019-5-1 13:00 | |
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Electrum, one of the most popular Bitcoin (BTC) wallets, has been suffering from a massive Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack… The post This New Bitcoin Trojan Already Infected 150K Wallets appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-4-30 19:25 | |
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Anti-malware software firm Malwarebytes discovered that the number of infected Electrum wallets has amounted to 152,000
2019-4-30 23:46 | |
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Researchers at Malwarebytes break down the phishing attacks on the Electrum bitcoin wallet. The cybersecurity firm outlines the two methods used to carry out phishing attacks, where the stolen crypto seems to be going, and how investors can protect themselves from future attacks.
2019-4-18 00:42 | |
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The cryptocurrency market has had their share of scams through the years, with hackers attacking at every single weak point they can find. Hackers have plagued this nascent industry frequently, and a recent report from Malwarebytes Labs says that one of the recent groups of victims is that of the users of the Electrum Bitcoin […]
2019-4-17 23:56 | |
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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.
2019-4-16 18:02 | |
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Electrum servers are still under a sustained Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The wallet developers announced the issue on April 7, 2018. In correspondence with Bitcoin Magazine, Electrum developer Thomas Voegtlin speculated that the attack may be a form of retaliation from a phishing attacker who has been targeting Electrum in recent weeks.
2019-4-11 21:47 | |
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The popular Bitcoin wallet “Electrum” recently reported an attack on its servers calling on users to take additional security measures to ensure their funds are not compromised. In a tweet published by its official account,.
2019-4-10 11:33 | |
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In its second attack in less than six months, Electrum announced on April 7, 2019, that it was targeted in a fake wallet attack. Attack of the Wallets In an ideal situation, crypto wallets would be virtually impenetrable and free from threats.
2019-4-9 17:00 | |
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The servers of Electrum, a popular Bitcoin wallet, were under heavy denial-of-service (DoS) attacks Sunday night; The total amount stolen could be in the “millions of dollars” so far. The company advised its users to limit the use of the platform until the issue is resolved, but provided little information on the investigation that’s underway.
2019-4-9 00:00 | |
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The Bitcoin Wallet – Electrum – Under Attack By A 14,000 Strong Bot-Based DoS Attack DoS attacks, according to research over last year, is one of the few kinds of digital attacks that cryptocurrencies and blockchains are vulnerable to.
2019-4-8 22:15 | |
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Millions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin has reportedly been taken in an attack that could, ironically, be in retaliation for Electrum’s recent crackdown on phishing. Users are urged to only download Electrum software and updates from the electrum.org domain and its official Github repository.
2019-4-10 22:06 | |
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Electrum, a popular bitcoin wallet has suffered a denial-of-service attack. The company announced the attack on Twitter, assuring its users that its developers were working on a “more robust version of the Electrum server.
2019-4-9 21:42 | |
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Bitcoin wallet Electrum faces an ongoing DoS attack on its servers that reportedly caused losses of millions of dollars to date
2019-4-8 20:16 | |
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Electrum Bitcoin wallet users should ensure that they’re using the latest version and that it’s from an official source. If users find themselves urged to “update” by the client, they should know that there is no update mechanism within Electrum itself.
2019-4-8 20:03 | |
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The servers of popular Bitcoin wallet Electrum are under heavy attack, and users are advised to be extra careful when using the platform until it’s resolved. A sophisticated botnet of more than 140,000 machines has launched Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on Electrum‘s servers, with apparent intent to direct users to compromised versions of the software designed to steal their Bitcoin.
2019-4-8 18:06 | |
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Video-sharing website mistakenly promotes malicious advertisement for Bitcoin wallet Electrum, before taking it down.
2019-3-28 12:09 | |
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YouTube reportedly ran a fake, malicious advertisement for crypto wallet Electrum by mistake
2019-3-27 23:03 | |
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Despite Having A Ban Against Many Crypto Ads, Google Just Promoted A Malicious Bitcoin Wallet Unintentionally Via YouTube YouTube has plenty of its own vloggers that like to discuss cryptocurrency in the blockchain world.
2019-3-26 21:35 | |
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Google-owned YouTube inadvertently advertized an illegitimate version of the Bitcoin wallet Electrum. A Redditor unearthed the issue, noting how the malicious advert was disguised to resemble a real Electrum advertisement.
2019-3-26 18:58 | |
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Состоялся релиз новой версии популярного биткоин-кошелька Electrum (v3. 3. 3). The latest version of Electrum (version 3. 3. 3) will notify users when a new release of Electrum is available. Release announcements are signed by us, and verified by Electrum using a hardcoded Bitcoin address.
2019-1-26 17:43 | |
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Состоялся релиз трекера Bitcoin Only для отслеживания продуктов, ориентированных исключительно на первую криптовалюту. Среди них аппаратные разработки, программное обеспечение, кошельки, подкасты и образовательные ресурсы.
2019-1-21 13:15 | |
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In this edition of The Daily, a video gamer streaming on Twitch has received crypto donations totaling over $70,000 and a hacker believed to be behind the 51 percent attack on the Ethereum Classic blockchain has reportedly returned $100,000 in ETC coins.
2019-1-14 14:15 | |
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Bitcoin Cash investors have had to do some serious wallet juggling of late. Most recently, the bComm Association, which is the group behind the newly launched BSV logo, has unveiled the ElectrumSV Wallet for Bitcoin Cash Satoshi Vision (BSV).
2019-1-12 22:06 | |
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Разработчики Electrum сообщили о многочисленных фишинговых клонах популярного криптовалютного кошелька. В частности, они предупредили о псевдо-Electrum-кошельке для Stellar: Alert: electrum-xlm [dot] info is Bitcoin-stealing malware.
2019-1-12 18:19 | |
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Разработчики Electrum сообщили о многочисленных фишинговых клонах популярного криптовалютного кошелька. В частности, они предупредили о псевдо-Electrum-кошельке для Stellar: Alert: electrum-xlm [dot] info is Bitcoin-stealing malware.
2019-1-11 17:20 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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Popular cryptocurrency wallet Electrum is in the midst of an ongoing hack which saw almost $1 million in Bitcoin stolen so far, Reddit users discovered on December 27, 2018. 250 BTC Stolen in Electrum Wallet Hack It seems that hackers aren’t lying idle during Christmas time, as a popular cryptocurrency wallet has reportedly experienced one of the largest thefts of.
2018-12-30 00:00 | |
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While the holiday spirit was in full swing over the past week, the crypto industry maintained its unrelenting drive for growth and adoption. The Litecoin Foundation divulged a sponsorship with the UFC, while Bitcoin’s Lightning Network continued to swell.
2018-12-29 17:00 | |
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Electrum hacker stole 245 BTC Electrum wallet was yesterday compromised by a malicious phishing attack, which we wrote about yesterday. New details about this hack emerged today as the potential address of the hacker was revealed, alongside his potential loot.
2018-12-29 02:55 | |
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A major vulnerability has been exposed in Electrum, a leading Bitcoin wallet with several forks that are compatible with other cryptocurrencies. This is the second Electrum bug in a single year, and the crypto community is now debating the merits of the wallet.
2018-12-29 23:09 | |
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Electrum developers have confirmed reports of an attack against the popular cryptocurrency wallet. Also covered in The Daily, Huobi Derivative Market’s daily trading volume has reached $1 billion, and one of the founders of Brazil’s leading crypto exchange Foxbit has died in a car crash.
2018-12-28 18:28 | |
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If you’ve been buying the dip, you may want to brush up on good security. Crypto wallets are being targeted by cybercriminals, most recently with a phishing attack on the popular Electrum software wallet.
2018-12-28 18:24 | |
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В Bitmain грядут масштабные сокращения, воротилы с Уолл-стрит замедлили работу с криптопроектами, разработчики Bitcoin Private могут уничтожить 12 млн монет из-за бага, сеть биткоина обработала $410 млрд, GMO Internet завязывает с производством оборудования для майнинга, Индия выразила готовность легализовать криптолвалюты, а хакеры смогли взломать кошелек Electrum Wallet.
2018-12-29 18:05 | |
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Hackers managed to steal close to $900,000 worth of Bitcoin from Electrum wallet users via a phishing attack. While the attacks seem to have come to a halt, Electrum Devs say the hackers can launch new exploits since the issue hasn’t been permanently fixed.
2018-12-28 15:00 | |
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A phishing attack on the Electrum wallet network has reportedly managed to steal bitcoin worth over $800,000.
2018-12-28 14:02 | |
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After a bounce-back last week to hit over $4,260, Bitcoin has continued having a lackluster week, dropping to $3,650. At press time, the currency was trading at $3,600 on Coinbase, Bitstamp, Kraken, and BitMEX.
2018-12-28 06:09 | |
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Electrum Becomes The Subject Of Ongoing Attack, Resulting In Nearly 250 Bitcoin Stolen (So Far) One of the most publicized problems in the cryptocurrency industry is the way that hacking keeps stealing money from it.
2018-12-28 04:04 | |
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The hacker used a malicious update to steal users’ funds.
2018-12-28 02:16 | |
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Nearly $1M In Bitcoin (BTC) Stolen An anonymous hacker (or consortium of hackers) have purportedly stolen nearly $1 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC), reports technology media outlet ZDNet. Per the report, the Electrum Wallet, a popular open-source project founded in mid-June 2011, was breached in a “clever attack.
2018-12-28 23:09 | |
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According to emerging reports, the popular Bitcoin wallet software Electrum has been attacked costing those affected over $750,000 worth of Bitcoin. The security breach involved hackers tricking the wallet into urging users to make a critical update.
2018-12-28 22:54 | |
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