Earlier this month, Electrum detected a DoS attack on its network, allegedly launched by a malicious botnet with more than 140,000 machines, designed to provide Electrum to users.

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Digital wallet developer Electrum has released an emergency patch saying it found a vulnerability that could lead any website hosting Electrum to steal a user's digital currency, exposing passwords to the JOHNSONRPC interface and ingelling hackers full control of the wallet. Earlier, Electrum released the first patch, but it didn't seem to solve the problem, and they released a second update urgently Sunday night local time.

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Xapo, founded in 2012, offers users online Bitcoin wallets, offline cold storage and Bitcoin-based debit cards. To date, the total amount of financing has reached $40 million. Among the investors are LinkedIn founders.

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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 wallets are fast and have 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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Electrum is a well-known light wallet for Bitcoin that adds new features such as server authentication using SSL to prevent MITM attacks. So unlike other Bitcoin light wallets, Electrum cannot communicate directly with different versions of Bitcoin full nodes, and each startup connects to electrumserver to communicate, and electrum.

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The Electrum team has announced the attack in an official tweet, saying that "this is an ongoing phishing attack on Electrum users" and reminding them to check the authenticity of the client's source before logging in. The team published its official website, and the Electrum clients downloaded elsewhere may be problematic.

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Electrum Bitcoin Wallet is the safest wallet available today. Let's talk about it.

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The Bitcoin desktop wallet client Electrum has released a beta version 4.0, which adds support for several important updates such as the Lightning Network. This version is nearly a year away from the previous version of Electrum 3.3.8 (July last year)

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The slow fog area said that the phishing attack that allegedly forged the upgrade prompt had stolen at least 200 BTCs, and that the attack could not have been avoided by upgrading Electrum alone, requiring the entire ecological service to make corresponding changes (because the Electrum client is not a full node, and then has a message on the transaction broadcast and the corresponding service side, the attacker can also deploy a malicious server). Slow fog zones remind users that phishing attacks like Electrum require long-term vigilance. The slow fog zone has previously issued an alert for selectrum phishing updates, and hackers who attacked Electrum wallets used Electrum's software to unusually construct malicious software update prompts to induce users to update and download malware usage. (Slow Fog Zone)

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Namebase's root domain name can do anything a normal domain name can do, or you can do something that other domain names can't. For example, now you want to send me coins, or I want to send you coins, need the other side to give an address, this address is very long, looks like garbled, it is difficult to remember. But if I create my domain name in Handshake, like Eric, I write my Bitcoin address into my domain name, and when you give me the currency transfer, if you use Handshake Wallet, you can fill in my name Eric directly, and then it will automatically break down the coin into my Bitcoin address.

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