New Attack Against Electrum Bitcoin Wallets

Schneier on Security 2019-01-07

Summary:

This is clever: How the attack works: Attacker added tens of malicious servers to the Electrum wallet network. Users of legitimate Electrum wallets initiate a Bitcoin transaction. If the transaction reaches one of the malicious servers, these servers reply with an error message that urges users to download a wallet app update from a malicious website (GitHub repo).User clicks the...

Link:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/new_attack_agai_3.html

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Tags:

bitcoin

Authors:

Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

01/07/2019, 11:20

Date published:

01/07/2019, 07:13