How you can avoid attacks on your crypto wallets.

[PX-Z]

For someone who doesn't jave any anti-virus installed on PC aside from default Defender, and never get hacked on any of my wallets. I only suggest to avoid downloading files from unknown sources, and avoid clicking suspicious links especially those shortened url, some malicious urls are masked by these short urls.

[Kemarit]

For someone who doesn't jave any anti-virus installed on PC aside from default Defender, and never get hacked on any of my wallets. I only suggest to avoid downloading files from unknown sources, and avoid clicking suspicious links especially those shortened url, some malicious urls are masked by these short urls.

Much better to still invest on a good anti-virus + Windows defender. But I do agree that shortened url are also very dangerous as obviously they are masking the real url. So it could be a malicious site and before you know it, you are already trap.

So it's really our duty to be on the look out of any kind of attacks and we should be made self-aware of the modus of cyber criminals. As everything might look nothing, but inside of that file, there are malware to steal our crypto assets.

[joniboini]

Normally the unusal behaviour of PC is when some windows opens and closes quickly when you power on your pc so keep an eye on that, and take proper actions.

From some malware news I've read in the past few weeks or so, I don't think I've seen a start-up window being present as a sign that a PC is infected. Most of them run in the background without any visible sign, except your computer feeling slow. I guess that shows how advanced the attack has become, and you'll probably find it easier to prevent yourself from opening one instead of cleaning it. That being said, I check my PC start-up schedule once in a while to see if some random apps have been added.

[Crypto Library]

Some people might consider sneaking some hardware wallets into the country even if crypto is banned. Though I'm not advising on that. Since you can't use the hardwares wallet, it's better to either create an air gapped wallet and store your funds offline.

I think the only way to import crypto-related hardware in countries like ours is to illegally import it from outside through someone you trust, which is very risky. And to be honest, I am a cryptocurrency guy and in this case, I never support third party hardware wallet imports.
Because people use hardware wallets only for holding large funds, and if third-party wallets are imported here and something is already systemized there, then I don't think there will be any benefit from using that type of hardware wallet.

[PX-Z]

Much better to still invest on a good anti-virus + Windows defender. But I do agree that shortened url are also very dangerous as obviously they are masking the real url. So it could be a malicious site and before you know it, you are already trap.

I stopped using paid AV after those annoying pop up warnings that cannot be stopped for some reason even just accessing a site's page for their web protection. Also because of those false positive results.

Suspicious downloaded files is not an issue since i checked and tested them on sandbox environment before using them on my main envi.

[SamReomo]

For someone who doesn't jave any anti-virus installed on PC aside from default Defender, and never get hacked on any of my wallets. I only suggest to avoid downloading files from unknown sources, and avoid clicking suspicious links especially those shortened url, some malicious urls are masked by these short urls.

That's a good suggestion, in reality only those people get hacked who download unknown applications and trust those applications without verifying their source. The ones who don't download such applications or don't click on suspicious links are always safe from such threats. One can also use Linux for more security.

[PX-Z]

One can also use Linux for more security.

Yeah, using linux would be pretty good and most recommended way to avoid such things to happen. But i never tried to install linux distro on any of my laptop, or to have dual boot with linux distro on my windows laptop yet, but i have experience using linux OS before, as well as i use ubunto on my VPS.

[bayu7adi]

So it's really our duty to be on the look out of any kind of attacks and we should be made self-aware of the modus of cyber criminals. As everything might look nothing, but inside of that file, there are malware to steal our crypto assets.

What's worse, there are some viruses that are not even detected at all by antivirus, and the victims are very many.... some viruses that are often discussed in forums or on reddit, those are the ones that are detected, right?

After understanding that our computers are quite vulnerable to being used as a place to store something important like a private key or seed key, it's a good idea to consider storing it offline, such as writing manually with a marker on paper, then storing it in a safe place... do it once and it will be useful forever.

[zeeMN]

Avoid using hot wallets on your main machine or computer that you use to get on the internet because any mistake of clicking some unknown link can get your pc infected with some Trojan or malware that will steal cookies or whatever it's mearnt to do and then someone will have authorized access and sweep all the coins and we lose out.

[Sim_card]

For someone who doesn't jave any anti-virus installed on PC aside from default Defender, and never get hacked on any of my wallets. I only suggest to avoid downloading files from unknown sources, and avoid clicking suspicious links especially those shortened url, some malicious urls are masked by these short urls.

Much better to still invest on a good anti-virus + Windows defender. But I do agree that shortened url are also very dangerous as obviously they are masking the real url. So it could be a malicious site and before you know it, you are already trap.

So it's really our duty to be on the look out of any kind of attacks and we should be made self-aware of the modus of cyber criminals. As everything might look nothing, but inside of that file, there are malware to steal our crypto assets.

I don't do much with my PC, apart from login to the forum to read and post. My electrum wallet on my PC is only used when I am transferring funds or uploading the lastest version of electrum. I don't do any other thing on my PC because I want to be as careful as possible to avoid having too many things to do with my PC. I don't open an email that I am not expecting.

[ZAINmalik75]

From some malware news I've read in the past few weeks or so, I don't think I've seen a start-up window being present as a sign that a PC is infected. Most of them run in the background without any visible sign, except your computer feeling slow. I guess that shows how advanced the attack has become, and you'll probably find it easier to prevent yourself from opening one instead of cleaning it. That being said, I check my PC start-up schedule once in a while to see if some random apps have been added.

These malware are old not new where we see pop up windows when we start our device and they pop up for sometime like they just blink for a less than a second and disappears. These pop up windows can be a sign that there is a virus on our computer and we have to deal with it until it is too late.

But first we have to find which virus it can be or we can just reset our computer, and it will take care of it. I think this method is good what do you think if this method is doable.

[Royal Cap]

First of all i want to tell something, virus can't directly attack on your computer. If you doesn't installed any suspicious software or application on your computer then you are safe. The antivirus can save you from old  viruses but day by day the hijackers/hackers are going to be very clever, so they create new viruses that the antivirus can't detected. So the ultimate tips is ' do not double click on any unknown software '   

[Forsyth Jones]

So it's really our duty to be on the look out of any kind of attacks and we should be made self-aware of the modus of cyber criminals. As everything might look nothing, but inside of that file, there are malware to steal our crypto assets.

What's worse, there are some viruses that are not even detected at all by antivirus, and the victims are very many.... some viruses that are often discussed in forums or on reddit, those are the ones that are detected, right?

After understanding that our computers are quite vulnerable to being used as a place to store something important like a private key or seed key, it's a good idea to consider storing it offline, such as writing manually with a marker on paper, then storing it in a safe place... do it once and it will be useful forever.

Even though I follow good security practices by avoiding installing unknown software and verifying GPG signatures, I always have this nagging feeling in the back of my mind when it comes to being infected by malware.

I've much more confidence using a hot wallet on a Linux system that's open source than on Windows.

Even though I own hardware wallets, I still like testing new features in hot wallets too, although most of them support integration with HWI

[TomPluz]

The antivirus can save you from old  viruses but day by day the hijackers/hackers are going to be very clever, so they create new viruses that the antivirus can't detected. So the ultimate tips is ' do not double click on any unknown software '   

We should always be wary of any software we want to download and never ever click links which can be suspicious as we can be tricked into something we would soon regret. These evil people are into the business of victimizing people and since they got the resources and even the funds for their operation, the incentive to be of success (stealing from others) is quite high. And this is especially true to all of us in the cryptocurrency industry...we are always the target since they know we got assets they can snatch from us. In many cases, they are three steps ahead of us and the technology we are utilizing for protection and they are ready 24/7 to give us a punch we will never forget.

[joniboini]

But first we have to find which virus it can be or we can just reset our computer, and it will take care of it. I think this method is good what do you think if this method is doable.

What do you mean by reset? Are you referring to the factory reset or reinstalling Windows whenever a virus is found? I do think that can be a solution if the virus is located in our OS drive, but I don't think it will prevent a virus from putting itself on another drive, and if we're reckless, we open it after we install a new Windows, which means we get infected again. Obviously, this is just a simplification and there are many ways to prevent this.

Checking the start-up list is a good thing to do once in a while; I agree with that. Especially if you regularly install or download new files.