Qtum Electrum is a Qtum desktop light wallet modified from the well-known Bitcoin wallet Electrum. Compared to the current Qtum Core full-node wallet, Qtum Electrum takes up less disk space and takes less time to synchronize chunks, supports multi-signature and hardware wallets, supports cold wallet mode, supports the import of mnomes into mobile wallets, and uses SPV authentication to ensure security.

Bitcoin wallet Electrum was hacked and at least 1,450 bitcoins were stolen.

In a forum post on Bitcointalk, website administrator Theymos explained: "If at any time in the past you've logged in to Electrum without a wallet password and opened a web page, your wallet might have been stolen." Particularly paranoid people may want to send all bitcoins (BTCs) from their old Electrum wallets to the newly generated Electrum wallet. "

Well-known Bitcoin wallet Electrum "update phishing" currency theft continues.

A clone site masquerading as an Electrum SV wallet has emerged. The cloning site has nothing to do with electrum SV and is designed to steal tokens and create chaos in the BSV community.

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.

The developer behind new entry Bitamp's Bitcoin wallet has created an easy-to-use client open source Bitcoin wallet to meet this demand. Bitamp Wallet allows users to send and receive Bitcoins from anywhere on any device. The interface also allows users to instantly create a new Bitcoin wallet by writing down 12 words of seeds. Users who generate seed phrases on other platforms (e.g. Electrum, Mycelium, Ledger) can securely and anonymously access their Bitcoins through the Bitamp website.

Users of Bitcoin wallet Electrum are facing a phishing attack, according to the Devi Security Lab. Hackers broadcast messages to the Electrum client through a malicious server, prompting the user to update to v4.0.0, and if the user follows the prompt to install this "backdoor-carrying client", the private key is stolen and all digital assets are stolen. At the time of writing, at least 1,450 BTCs worth about $11.6 million had been stolen from phishing attacks that faked Electrum upgrade tips. DeViable Security Labs hereby suggests that versions of Electrum below 3.3.4 are vulnerable to such phishing attacks, and users using Electrum Wallet are requested to update to the latest version of Electrum 3.3.8 via the official website (electrum.org), which has not yet been officially released, and do not use the link in the prompt to avoid asset losses.

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

The Litecoin Foundation announced that it will move from electrum-LTC wallet to multi-purpose signature wallet BitGo.