Electrum Lightning

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.

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.

Electrum client. A veteran security research expert told Hard Fork that if a user installs the problem version of Electrum.

Fake: github/electrum-wallet/electrum/releases.

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

Bitcoin Wallet Electrum Wallet was hacked and lost 1,450 BTCs.

By default, electrum wallets are randomly connected to a set of Electrum servers. From a privacy perspective, this is not a good thing because it discloses your wallet address and balance to unknown third parties. And unfortunately, many public Electrum servers are run by individuals or groups of blockchain analytics companies or worse. Therefore, if you are using an Electrum wallet, it is generally recommended that you run your own Electrum server and then connect the wallet to that server.

Nano Ledger Model S is a very popular hardware wallet with new firmware updates, including some new additions and upgrades. The Ledger Model S hardware wallet has a firmware update of 1.6.1, which is primarily used to highlight new and exciting features. The two main features shown in this update are

Fake Electrum website for phishing A user has stolen 700 bitcoins.

Torus starts with private key management, in the Web 2.0 era, your account and password information is basically in the hands of "trusted third parties" (such as Facebook, Google), when you lose your account, click "forgot your password", fill in the relevant information can be retrieved.