Electrum Wallet users lost $4 million to BTC in a series of phishing attacks.

The veteran Bitcoin desktop wallet client Electrum has released the official version of 4.0, adding support for several important updates, such as the Lightning network, and has released an updated version 4.0.1. Electrum adds features such as PSBT (partially signed Bitcoin transactions), Lightning Network, watchtowers (暸 watchtowers) and Submarineswaps (subliminal switching) for version 4.0.

In addition, small partners who have used Electrum wallets should be aware that with Thecret phrase generated by Electrum, we can recover bitcoin keys on any browser using the Bitcoin Wallet web tool. And Electrum is so secure that there is no evidence that the distributed attack prevention system designed by Dark Wallet will be due to Electrum.

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.

Star Daily News Bitcoin Wallet Electrum official Twitter announced that the next version of Electrum will support Lightning online payments. Its lightning node implementation has been consolidated into the main branch of Electrum. Electrum also confirmed that the wallet will adopt a new implementation of in-house development written using Python. (Cointelegraph)

Researchers at the popular Bitcoin wallet app Electrum have uncovered a malicious shanzhai act aimed at stealing seed keys. The suspicious shanzhai wallet, called Electrum Pro, appeared online in March and has been labeled malware since.

The main drawback of Bech32 addresses is that not all encrypted wallets and services support them. First, hardware encryption wallets Ledger Nano S, TREZOR and Digital Bitbox, desktop encryption wallets Electrum and Amory, mobile encryption wallets Edge, GreenAddress (for iOS and Android devices) add support for such addresses, including Samourai, Wallet, Walletabi, GreenBits and Electrum (for Android devices)

If you have LN functionality, you can connect directly from NiceHash wallet or from another Bitcoin wallet, such as Electrum, Blue Wallet, BLW, and Eclair applications.

Vulnerabilities were found in Electrum and Electrum-LTC. It has been fixed in Electrum-LTC 3.0.5.1. If you are running an earlier version, update your software.

Send the coin to another wallet for long-term bitcoin storage. There should be a full node behind the wallet, such as the Electrum node pointing to your own Electrum server.