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Electrum Python Console Security Vulnerability
Electrum is a lightweight Bitcoin client software, and Python console is one of the Python console programs.A security vulnerability exists in the Python console in Electrum versions 2.9.4 and earlier, and versions 3.x through 3.0.5. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to steal...
49 New Google Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Cryptocurrency Wallets
Google has ousted 49 Chrome browser extensions from its Web Store that masqueraded as cryptocurrency wallets but contained malicious code to siphon off sensitive information and empty the digital currencies. The 49 browser add-ons, potentially the work of Russian threat actors, were identified fi...
49 New Google Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Cryptocurrency Wallets
Google has ousted 49 Chrome browser extensions from its Web Store that masqueraded as cryptocurrency wallets but contained malicious code to siphon off sensitive information and empty the digital currencies. The 49 browser add-ons, potentially the work of Russian threat actors, were identified fi...
New Electrum DDoS botnet steals $4.6M after infecting 152,000 hosts
By Ryan De Souza The majority of the bots are located in Brazil and Peru but the number of victims is constantly increasing across diverse regions. Threat actors who previously targeted cryptocurrency wallets through Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks have now launched another malware...
Rapidly Growing Electrum Botnet Infects Over 152,000 Users; Steals $4.6 Million
An ongoing attack against Electrum Bitcoin wallets has just grown bigger and stronger with attackers now targeting the whole infrastructure of the exchange with a botnet of over 152,000 infected users, raising the amount of stolen users' funds to USD 4.6 million. Electrum has been facing cyber...
Rapidly Growing Electrum Botnet Infects Over 152,000 Users; Steals $4.6 Million
An ongoing attack against Electrum Bitcoin wallets has just grown bigger and stronger with attackers now targeting the whole infrastructure of the exchange with a botnet of over 152,000 infected users, raising the amount of stolen users' funds to USD 4.6 million. Electrum has been facing cyber...
Electrum DDoS botnet reaches 152,000 infected hosts
By Jérôme Segura, Adam Thomas, and S!Ri We have been closely monitoring the situation involving the continued attacks against users of the popular Electrum Bitcoin wallet. Initially, victims were being tricked to download a fraudulent update that stole their cryptocurrencies. Later on, the threat...
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...
[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: electrum-3.2.4-2.fc28
Electrum is an easy to use Bitcoin client. It protects you from losing coins in a backup mistake or computer failure, because your wallet can be recovered from a secret phrase that you can write on paper or learn by heart. There is no waiting time when you start the client, because it does not...
Fedora Update for electrum FEDORA-2019-596813cc59
The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...
Fedora 28 : electrum (2019-596813cc59)
Security and bugfixes. Last update was not possible to install because of missing dependencies. These were optional and is now removed Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to...
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: electrum-3.2.4-2.fc29
Electrum is an easy to use Bitcoin client. It protects you from losing coins in a backup mistake or computer failure, because your wallet can be recovered from a secret phrase that you can write on paper or learn by heart. There is no waiting time when you start the client, because it does not...
Fedora 29 : electrum (2019-41a3fb1d64)
Security and bugfixes. Last update was not possible to install because of missing dependencies. These were optional and is now removed Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to...
Fedora Update for electrum FEDORA-2019-4dc2ccb142
The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: electrum-3.2.4-1.fc29
Electrum is an easy to use Bitcoin client. It protects you from losing coins in a backup mistake or computer failure, because your wallet can be recovered from a secret phrase that you can write on paper or learn by heart. There is no waiting time when you start the client, because it does not...
[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: electrum-3.2.4-1.fc28
Electrum is an easy to use Bitcoin client. It protects you from losing coins in a backup mistake or computer failure, because your wallet can be recovered from a secret phrase that you can write on paper or learn by heart. There is no waiting time when you start the client, because it does not...
Fedora 28 : electrum (2019-4dc2ccb142)
backport anti-phishing fixes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. C Tenable Network...
Fedora 29 : electrum (2019-c431c60024)
backport anti-phishing fixes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. C Tenable Network...
New Attack Against Electrum Bitcoin Wallets
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 t...
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...