Trust Wallet’s $7M Oopsie: Update Your Chrome Extension Now!
Trust Wallet users, brace yourselves! After a $7 million security incident involving version 2.68 of its Chrome extension, Trust Wallet is urging users to update to version 2.69. For the love of crypto, click that update button before your digital assets vanish faster than a magician’s rabbit!
Hot Take:
Looks like Trust Wallet users just got a crash course in the importance of software updates—because nothing says “Gift of the Magi” like a surprise $7 million hole in your digital pocket. Time to update those Chrome extensions, folks, because even your virtual wallets aren’t safe from digital grinches.
Key Points:
- Trust Wallet’s Chrome extension, version 2.68, was compromised, leading to $7 million in losses.
- Users are urged to update to version 2.69 to avoid further breaches.
- Malicious code in the extension decrypted user mnemonics and sent them to a hacker’s server.
- SlowMist suggests an APT group may be behind the attack.
- Attackers also ran a phishing scheme alongside the breach.
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