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UBTC Electrum Light Wallet v3.3.4 Latest Release (note attached)
UBTC Electrum Light Wallet v3.3.4 Latest Release (note attached)
The Litecoin Foundation announced that it will move from electrum-LTC wallet to multi-purpose signature wallet BitGo.
11 Bitcoin wallet Electrum was hacked and at least 1450 BTCs were stolen.
Electrum is a popular software wallet that works by connecting to a dedicated server. These servers receive a hash of the Bitcoin address in the wallet and reply with transaction information. Electrum Wallet is fast and has few resources, but by default, it connects to these servers and can easily monitor users. In addition to Electrum, some other software uses public Electrum servers. By 2019, it is a faster and better alternative to BIP37.
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Bitcoin desktop wallet client Electrum has released a 4.0 beta version, adding several important updates, including support for the Lightning network, nearly a year after the previous version of Electrum, 3.3.8 (last July). In the 4.0 beta version, Electrum mainly added features such as PSBT (partially signed Bitcoin transactions), Lightning Network, watchtowers (暸 watchtowers) and Submarineswaps (subliminal switching). (Github.
Electrum hackers pre-empted a large number of "normal" electrum servers on the P2P network.
At the time of writing, at least 1,450 BTCs (stolen by one user, antimalware firm Malwarebytes and Electrum) had been stolen in phishing attacks that faked Electrum upgrade tips, with a total value of approximately $11.6 million.
Once it hass infected a machine, the stealers to retrieve sensitive information from both Chromium-and Firefox-browser baseds (Chromium, Chrome, Opera, Comodo Dragon, Yandex, Vivaldi, Firefox, Pale Moon, Cyberfox, BlackHawk, K-Meleon, etc.), as well as from Filezilla and cryptocurrency wallets (Bitcoin Core, Ethereum, Electrum LTC, Monero, Electrum, Dash, Litecoin, ZCash, and many others)
Bitcoin Wallet Electrum confirms a phishing attack against its users, reminding them not to download Electrum Wallet software from any channel other than the official website. Earlier media reports said Electrum users had maliciously stolen millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies. Hackers create Electrum wallet software with malicious code, induce users to download, and trick users into providing login information such as passwords to commit theft.