Electrum Wallet Flaw Allowed Servers To Trick Users Into Paying Hackers
Electrum, one of Bitcoin’s oldest software wallets, published a security advisory on Saturday describing a weakness that attackers were already abusing. TL;DR A bug in the Electrum bitcoin wallet let malicious servers slip fake pending payments into users’ transaction history. Users who tried to speed up a stuck payment with Replace-by-Fee could end up signing […]
Key Takeaways
- Electrum, one of Bitcoin’s oldest software wallets, published a security advisory on Saturday describing a weakness that attackers were already abusing.
- TL;DR A bug in the Electrum bitcoin wallet let malicious servers slip fake pending payments into users’ transaction history.
- Users who tried to speed up a stuck payment with Replace-by-Fee could end up signing […]
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