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Users Report Losing Bitcoin in Clever Hack of Electrum Wallets (zdnet.com)
A hacker -- or potentially a group of hackers -- has made over 200 Bitcoin (circa $750,000 at today's exchange) using a clever attack on the infrastructure of the Electrum Bitcoin wallet over the last one week. From a report: The attack resulted in legitimate Electrum wallet apps showing a message on users' computers, urging them to download a malicious wallet update from an unauthorized GitHub repository. The attack began last week on Friday, December 21, and appears to have been temporarily stopped earlier today after GitHub admins took down the hacker's GitHub repository. Admins of the Electrum wallet expect a new attack to soon get underway, with either a new GitHub repo or a link to another download location altogether. This is because the vulnerability at the heart of this attack has remained unpatched, albeit Electrum wallet admins taking steps to mitigate its usability for the attacker.
such program's installer before installing it.
This assumes you have used the same GPG key in the past for previous versions. If you downloaded it NOW for the 1st AND the hackers managed to substitute the GPG key mentioned/linked on the official website, then there's nothing more you can do.
CRYPTO IS THE FUTURE!!!
You know, after so much hype and bullshit around cryptocurrencies, this shit just makes me laugh.
You wanted to play in an unregulated financial industry, this is what you get. It's the wild west of scams and idiots, and I have no sympathy for any of them.
Boo fucking hoo, more cryptocurrency fools have lost their money.
It is worth only what the next fool thinks it is.
Also - "circa" - this is no eurotrash website, msmash. Please keep that lingo appropriate.
Don't worry, your coins are safe with us hahahahah
Glad I just rely on package management to update. Though I know that's not entirely safe all the time also but it is a hell of a lot safer.
Yup it time for the bitcoin stories to die
This was the tech version of a pyramid scheme. Time for it to be banned
if it cant be used as safe currency then maybe graphic card and ram prices can return to normal
Uh dude. They did. In fact, ebay is flooded with graphics cards below market value as miners are abandoning ship.
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But it uses blockchain technology!
Gone
Because I want a card someone previously mined with?
Speaking of which, can't these coins be tracked and if someone tries to cash them out, there's your thief?
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Is there any reason to use E-wallets? (can you keep bitcoin files on your own computer?) the only time I ever see anything about e-wallets is when its used to steal from someone
many miners undervolt so a lot of miner cards are gonna be ok to game with
And I'm also afraid of the internet, let's burn that too.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
Any other blockchain evangelists want to pontificate how secure the technology is?
If nothing else, why can't the coins be tracked to the new wallet (they are) and recouped? Oh, ya, it's unregulated and not back by a government.. to bad.
yeah, but that'd mean getting the government involved to uncover the IP addresses of those wallets, and seeing these are mostly used for illegal purchases, most users effected were probably involved in less than legal dealings and would rather not risk exposing themselves.
I’m not saying Apple’s strict walled garden is a good approach, because the inability to trust new certs actually can make this sort of attack easier by causing third-party app stores to be unsigned until installation, but there is something to be said about ensuring that any app that was code signed by a different cert loses access to app data.
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If itâ(TM)s a distributed ledger, why canâ(TM)t the stolen coins be tracked and recalled? Or at least tracked? I always thought blockchain a big thing was to be able to trace every transaction ever in an untamperable fashion.
Are some people criminally stupid? How do you go to some location and download *something*, don't ask questions even when large amounts of money are at stake? That sets off at least a yellow alert surly?!?
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Does it have STDs? If it's in working condition why wouldn't you want it?
Seriously - is there a real risk of some failed miner putting malware in the graphics card?
Affected.
My favorite explanation of bitcoin is from Twitter: Imagine if keeping your car idling 24-7 produced solved Sodokus you could trade for heroin.
Good thing they waited until now to steal the Bitcoins. Such wealth!
There is significant risk of the card having been overclocked and overheated to near death, so that you will pay a lot of money for a used card that may or may not live for for a few more months
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