Electrum Bitcoin wallets under siege

By Adam Thomas and Jérôme Segura, with additional contributions from Vasilios Hioueras and S!Ri Since at least late December 2018, many users of the popular Electrum Bitcoin wallet have fallen victim to a series of phishing attacks, which we estimate netted crooks well over 771 Bitcoins—an amount...

Hackers steal Bitcoin worth $750,000 by hacking Electrum wallets

By Waqas This year we have seen an unprecedented rise in malware attacks against cryptocurrency wallets whereas cryptomining incidents have increased by 4,000%, reports McAfee. The latest attack on well-known Bitcoin wallet Electrum further proves that malware attacks on crypto wallets are indeed...

Electrum Technologies GmbH Electrum Bitcoin Wallet Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Electrum Technologies GmbH Electrum Bitcoin Wallet is a lightweight bitcoin wallet software. A security vulnerability exists in the JSONRPC interface in Electrum Technologies GmbH Electrum Bitcoin Wallet versions prior to 3.0.5. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to steal bitcoins...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000022

Electrum Technologies GmbH Electrum Bitcoin Wallet version prior to version 3.0.5 contains a Missing Authorization vulnerability in JSONRPC interface that can result in Bitcoin theft, if the user's wallet is not password protected. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must visit a...