Chain News, lightweight Bitcoin Wallet Electrum announced that the next version will support Lightning network payment, implemented using Python, Electrum as a Lightning network node, wallet users do not need to run lightning network nodes to make payments, electrum lightning network nodes have been merged into the Electrum master branch.

This isn't the first time electrum has appeared in a fake version. In December, nearly $1 million of BTC was stolen when hackers developed a fake encrypted wallet, Electrum. 1 this year.

This isn't the first time Thatectrum has appeared in a fake version, with hackers developing a fake encrypted wallet, Electrum, in December, resulting in the theft of nearly 250 bitcoins worth about $1 million. In January, GitHub discovered a fake Electrum wallet called "Electrvm" designed to steal users' money. In February, users of encrypted wallets Electrum and MyEtherWallet reported that they were facing phishing attacks.

Reddit user u/normal_rc: 'The attacker set up a lot of malicious servers. Once a user's Electrum wallet is connected to these servers, they see what appears to be an official message when sending bitcoin transactions, telling them to upgrade the Electrum wallet, which actually contains a fraudulent URL.

The latest version of UBTC Electrum Light Wallet v3.2.8 is available for download.

The latest version of UBTC Electrum Light Wallet v3.2.8 is available.

On April 9th Electrum, the Bitcoin wallet service, was hacked, resulting in the loss of user funds. In response to the attack, Beosin Chengdu Chain Security made an analysis: This wallet Electrum was attacked, mainly because the use of the kivy framework is using a standard py compiler and wallet does not do anti-secondary packaging protection, the core file can be directly recompiled back to the py file. Attackers can imitate the code, directly join the code to steal the user's password, key after the secondary packaging, and then cooperate with other attacks, tempt users to install the wallet implanted with malicious code, thereby stealing the user's password, key and other sensitive information.

Lightweight Bitcoin Wallet Electrum announced that the next version will support Lightning network payments, implemented with Python, an electrum network node where wallet users do not need to run Lightning network nodes themselves to make payments, and electrum's Lightning network nodes have now been merged into the Electrum master branch.

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