Several Bitcoin Wallets Compromised to Steal Bitcoin funds

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Global bitcoin payment service provider, BitPay announces that its open source bitcoin wallet Copay has been attacked and exposed to malicious code with the intent to steal Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) funds.

Someone managed to inject malicious code into versions 5.0.2 through 5.1.0. The BitPay app itself was not affected.

The issue was spotted by Github user developer, who posted the issue on Github early on Monday, but only today have researchers been able to understand what the heavily obfuscated malicious code actually does.

The malicious code is named Event-Stream, a JavaScript npm package for working with Node.js streaming data. This is an extremely popular JavaScript library, with over two million weekly downloads on the npm.org repository, but about three months ago, its original author, due to a lack of time and interest, handed its development over to another programmer named Right9ctrl.

The attack has affected Copay and other major bitcoin wallets. Copay’s open source code is used by many...

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[jyotianand01]

Always use hardware wallet as those wallets are fully secured from any attack and that wallets cannot be compromised because only owner have access to that wallet.

[mlawson71]

Did they actually manage to steal anything or was the hack stopped in its tracks?

[valer4ik]

and the course is invigorating ☺

Craig will not have enough time to push down the course for a long time, if this is not a plot of regulators against a crypt, and there have been no such rumors, and in my opinion there can be no conspiracy in principle, which means it will be an excellent opportunity for the market to finally turn around.

But I don’t know his fork who will now support him, everything was clear from him and without these actions, a fraudster such that there is no place to put samples, but now he has revealed himself in all its glory.