{"id":31798,"date":"2020-11-16T09:42:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T07:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31798"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:30:52","slug":"electrum-user-loses-32000-to-a-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/electrum-user-loses-32000-to-a-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrum user loses $32,000 to a vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters have once again siphoned funds from an Electrum Bitcoin wallet user. The loss amounted to $32,000.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\ude94 A payment of 2.042 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTC<\/a> (32,876 USD) was just made to a confirmed Malware scam!<\/p>\n<p>\u2139\ufe0f The receiving address is used by the Electrum malware<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0mEz08N5kF\">https:\/\/t.co\/0mEz08N5kF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Whale Alert (@whale_alert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whale_alert\/status\/1327214189480390657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Whale Alert, on November 13 a transfer of 2 BTC was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/btc\/address\/bc1qjg4ax2h7gff0wszjq0jzmv2gwzgtfluzrelf59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sent<\/a> to one of the hackers&#8217; confirmed addresses.<\/p>\n<p>The address has been in use since mid-2019. In this period, more than 106 BTC ($1.7 million at current rates) were sent to it.<\/p>\n<p>All victims received a prompt to update the wallet via a pop-up message. After installing it and entering a one-time password, funds from the user&#8217;s balance were transferred to the attackers&#8217; address.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, cybercriminals <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/study-hackers-stole-1980-bitcoins-via-fake-electrum-wallet-update\">stole<\/a> more than $23 million in Bitcoin using a fake Electrum wallet update. The attackers have been exploiting the vulnerability since at least December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters have once again siphoned funds from an Electrum Bitcoin wallet user. The loss amounted to $32,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1301,1154,1909],"class_list":["post-31798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities","tag-crimes","tag-electrum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31800,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798\/revisions\/31800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}