Electrum bitcoin wallets were vulnerable to hackers for

The bitcoin wallet Electrum allows any website to steal your bitcoins. I was gonna report it I pointed out this is kinda critical, and they made a new release within a few hours. As the tweet says, if you use Electrum for your Bitcoin wallet, update to 3.

A twitter user made a quick demo video of how the exploit can be used, just by visiting a malicious website:. This is attacking my local wallet from which could be a "random" website. Electrum says they were unaware of how serious the bug was until recently, according to Motherboard's communication with the founder. The user who initially reported the bug reportedly didn't know about the security implications either, which is why no critical flags went off at the time.

Keep safe out there! If you use Electrum wallet to store your bitcoins, be sure to encrypt the wallet with a password and update to the latest patch immediately. Spencer Steiner is a writer at ModMy and a tech freak. I pointed out this is kinda critical, and they made a new release within a few hours. As the tweet says, if you use Electrum for your Bitcoin wallet, update to 3.

A twitter user made a quick demo video of how the exploit can be used, just by visiting a malicious website:. This is attacking my local wallet from which could be a "random" website. Electrum says they were unaware of how serious the bug was until recently, according to Motherboard's communication with the founder. The user who initially reported the bug reportedly didn't know about the security implications either, which is why no critical flags went off at the time.

Keep safe out there! If you use Electrum wallet to store your bitcoins, be sure to encrypt the wallet with a password and update to the latest patch immediately. Spencer Steiner is a writer at ModMy and a tech freak. He enjoys gaming, computers, video editing, and building websites. Skip to main content.