Original title: Slow Fog: Analysis of Pseudo Electrum Harpoon Fishing Attacks

The cryptocurrencies wallet Electrum has lost nearly 250 bitcoins ($914,000) as a result of the new phishing attack. Electrum has confirmed the authenticity of the attack. An attacker could induce a user to provide password information by creating a fake wallet.

Recently, some users of Bitcoin Light Wallet electrum have been targeted by a phishing window attack, which prompts users to fail to transfer money using electrum Light Wallet, and also directs users to the specified address to download the "latest version" of the wallet

Fake: github/electrum-wallet/electrum/releases.

Electrum is a software wallet. It provides more security than an online wallet, but less than a paper wallet or hardware wallet.

Digital Wallet Electrum was hacked, losing 250 bitcoins.

Digital Wallet Electrum was hacked, losing 250 bitcoins.

To use mnomets to transfer addresses from electrum wallets to web wallets, you need to set Electrum to be compatible with Qtum phone mnomets in the initial installation (and then use phone wallet mnomets to restore phone wallets on Electrum). This setting is screenshot of the Electrum configuration.

Security firm: Electrum Wallet suffered a massive DoS attack that has cost millions of dollars.

11 Bitcoin wallet Electrum was hacked and at least 1450 BTCs were stolen.