A Github user reported another trouble with caused him to lose 36.5 Bitcoins worth almost $430,000 due to an exploit to electrum wallet, the same wallet who took another user to lose astonishing 1,400 Bitcoins (worth more than $16.3M) reported here.
The Github report could be seen here:
It seems that scammers exploits a version of the electrum wallet, precisely the version 3.3.4 that are susceptible of phishing taking users to think that are downloading the newest ones when in fact are installing a malicious program that trigger the send button to transfer assets to criminals wallets.
Electrum wallet is a secure wallet, that isn't for doubt but the servers the wallet is provided allow that scammers can infect users with malicious programs.
The user who lost 36.5 BTC in the report said that the hackers split his funds in 5 new addresses and identified a transaction that this criminals made to the Cryptocurrency exchange Binance, but the staff his ignoring his reports.
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