Oh em ge, Malware Threatens 2.3 Million Bitcoin Users
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New attacks on Bitcoin users that will produce 'clipboard Windows' to access them have reached 2.3 million users.
Malware, part of the threat family known as the "clipboard hijacker," runs silently in memory, running behind to make sure the user is not paying attention to his presence. Then, the hacker who addresses the Bitcoin address that the user has copied to the clipboard with the attacker's address, then passed by the user without sending and sending the coin to the hacker's address.
"Unless users are cursing an inserted address, they will not know what's happening," Bleeping Computer reported, adding an explanatory video of how malware works.
Bitcoin users face various activities using hardware to transact, no matter with this is Android smartphone, Windows PC or other device.
As Cointelegraph often uses, the threat list continues to grow, even email, while other entities exchange addresses in different ways.
"Attackers provide user information and create malware addresses to take advantage of this," adds Bleeping Computer.
Maintaining the antivirus software that is the main solution to the problem, along with checking the Bitcoin address of this transaction has been using the copy-paste feature.
Some hardware such as TREZOR are also users to access addresses that can manipulate at any time
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