Published: 25 Feb 2021 › Updated: 25 Feb 2021
AddrJack - an Educational Bitcoin Address-Swapping Malware Demo
I wrote this interesting little demo of a type of malware that has stolen from users out in the wild. This type of malware works by detecting Bitcoin addresses in the copy-paste buffer and replacing the address with the thief's. So when the user pastes the address, the funds are sent to the attacker instead of the intended recipient.
Source: https://github.com/chaintuts/addrjack
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