Malwarebytes cybersecurity company experts say digital storage owners become victims intruders. Total losses are estimated at $ 4.6 million.
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Electrum Bitcoin Wallet Attacks Affectedusers of 152 thousand accounts, approximate losses amounted to $ 4.6 million, Malwarebytes experts said. They managed to discover a new software called Trojan.BeamWinHTTP, which is involved in the distribution of the ElectrumDoSMiner botnet that was previously identified.
According to experts, the largest numberinfections occurred in the Asia-Pacific region, Brazil and Peru. It is known that the main part of the hosting infrastructure of ElectrumDoSMiner is located in Ukraine. The attacks are mainly targeted at new PCs.
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Electrum wallet infrastructure hacking started inThe end of December 2018.Then, users lost more than 200 bitcoins (a little less than $ 1 million at the exchange rate of that time). Earlier this month, data appeared that the Electrum system was under a DoS attack, 140 thousand bots were conducting it. Clients of the service are redirected to compromised versions of software that instantly steal their funds.
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