Electrum Bitcoin wallet developers have reported a DDoS attack on their servers. According to The Next Web , it is conducted by 140 thousand bots, which by their actions force hundreds of users to switch to compromised software versions that instantly steal the cryptoactive assets of victims.
In a commentary to the publication, an unnamed cybersecurity expert said that the total losses from the attack lasting for about a week are millions of dollars, and one user lost $ 140,000 in cryptoactives.
According to the lead developer and creator of Electrum Thomas Voegtlin (Thomas Voegtlin), those who have not updated the application version for a long time are at risk.
For security reasons, the project team has disconnected software versions older than version 3.3 from public servers and recommends not downloading the application from any resources other than electrum.org, as well as connecting the application to servers only manually.
Electrum servers are currently under a DoS attack. We are working on a more robust version of the electrum server. Auto-connect, and select their server manually.
– Electrum (@ElectrumWallet) April 7, 2019
Recall that the phishing attack on Electrum , which was recorded in December last year, lasted several months. During the transaction, many users received an error message, to correct which allegedly required to update the software to a non-existent version of Electrum 4.0.0.
Publication date 09/04/2019
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