@d12321 20 August 2023

How to hack a BTC wallet and how to protect yourself from it. Part 2 🧐 According to your requests (thanks for 🐳), we continue to analyze the ways of hacking crypto wallets, the 1st part is here. 👊 Brute force. Any crypto wallet can be hacked by brute force, when they simply sort through many options for the private key and finally guess. They call it brute force, but the probability of such an event is incredibly small, and for this reason, people walk BTC for 10 years or more on one address and it does not go anywhere. But sometimes, when creating a wallet, random will fail and create keys with lots of zeros. Such wallets are called Weak Address and it will take several hours to crack them. In order not to lose cryptocurrency, always check the newly created wallet for Weak Address. 💡 Memorable key. People are afraid to forget a private key or seed phrase, and at the same time they do not trust digital or paper media to store them. Therefore, when generating a wallet, they use sets of words or numbers that are very easy to remember. Hackers are actually quite good psychologists and know all the standard sets of phrases and numbers that seem to ordinary users to be very reliable keys. Whenever you create such an easy key, you should understand that the chances of your wallet being hacked grow many times over. 🤦‍♂️ Published key. This vulnerability is inherent in developers who test applications and smart contracts themselves and then forget to remove their own private keys from the code. But an ordinary user can also make such a mistake by exposing his private account on the network in one way or another. After that, the hacker takes control of the wallet and empties it as soon as a significant amount accumulates there. Never and nowhere specify private keys, and it is even better to have several wallets. For example, one for storing fixed assets, and the second for frequent small transactions, so that in the event of a second exposed wallet being hacked, your losses are minimal. Save and tell a friend 😉 #what to do