Copy-Paste Virus For Bitcoin Users -- Beware!!! - page 3.

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Quote from: Nanda Dewi277 on April 01, 2017, 10:40:28 AM

My friend's laptop was also affected by the virus to copy-paste, My friend yesterday transaction with me after the copy address wallet that was different from what is on the clipboard.

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I recommend to be careful when going to transact, always check your wallet addresses whether the same or different.

The network has been very fast lately so a double spend attack is getting much harder to pull off, but if you were to notice that the transaction you just sent went to a different then you could try quickly double spend the transaction with a much higher fee back to one of your own addresses, a long shot even when the network has a backlog but anything is worth a try to try out smart the scammers.

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My friend's laptop was also affected by the virus to copy-paste, My friend yesterday transaction with me after the copy address wallet that was different from what is on the clipboard.

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I recommend to be careful when going to transact, always check your wallet addresses whether the same or different.

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The virus is very dangerous for bitcoin users, it will automatically change your bitcoin address and cause you to lose all your money when you take a copy-paste action. It is a threat that we all need to stay away from. However, this does not happen at random, the virus infiltrates from dirty web pages and applications, and the virus giver to your device is none other than you. It is you who caused the danger. So, you need to check and make sure that what you do is right, and never use unacknowledged applications.

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I got this once, sometime ago, not sure how i got it, but as i was using a VM, I just deleted it and installed a new one Lips sealed

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Quote from: Xester on April 01, 2017, 03:03:16 AM

Quote from: cryptocoinplay on March 25, 2017, 02:12:37 AM

Recently There's a Virus I am victim of it and some of my friends, clients etc are affected too. This is called Copy-Paste Virus.
Please be careful while you paste a BTC address or Copy an Address.

The virus works like-- You copied a BTC address to send and while you paste it, It changed to other address and the funds sends to other account.

Copy paste virus was actually started as a bug towards gambling sites wherein when a user makes a withdrawal the address he pasted changes to another bitcoin address that of the hacker or creator of the bug. Then later on the cases moved on to the web wallets since the bug evolved and eventually almost all bitcoin address were affected by the virus if you have that in your pc. That is the reason also why we in our group after one of our friends have been a victim started to be cautious of btc address and double checks it before sending.

Never knew something like this is there even after doing so many transactions for so many years now. Thank you for sharing your experience and letting us know. Will be double checking all the addresses before putting in from now.

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Quote from: cryptocoinplay on March 25, 2017, 02:12:37 AM

Recently There's a Virus I am victim of it and some of my friends, clients etc are affected too. This is called Copy-Paste Virus.
Please be careful while you paste a BTC address or Copy an Address.

The virus works like-- You copied a BTC address to send and while you paste it, It changed to other address and the funds sends to other account.

Copy paste virus was actually started as a bug towards gambling sites wherein when a user makes a withdrawal the address he pasted changes to another bitcoin address that of the hacker or creator of the bug. Then later on the cases moved on to the web wallets since the bug evolved and eventually almost all bitcoin address were affected by the virus if you have that in your pc. That is the reason also why we in our group after one of our friends have been a victim started to be cautious of btc address and double checks it before sending.

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I had this virus a past month ago, When you copy your btc address and paste it. It will change to another btc address. I searched on how to remove that virus, But sadly the only cure is to format your pc or laptop. Even anti virus cant delete that virus or malware. But I didn't format my pc because. Reformatting is restarting all over again your Installation, your works, all the important files. I just separately copy my btc address in part by part so it works. And after a week the malware or virus stops had errors on its file i think. Just scan your computer or laptop everyday to prevent getting virus or malwares.

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Quote from: cryptocoinplay on March 25, 2017, 02:12:37 AM

Recently There's a Virus I am victim of it and some of my friends, clients etc are affected too. This is called Copy-Paste Virus.
Please be careful while you paste a BTC address or Copy an Address.

The virus works like-- You copied a BTC address to send and while you paste it, It changed to other address and the funds sends to other account.

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thank u for this information i will be very careful

i use online scanner but does anyone see this detected by definition at yet?

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Quote from: Patatas on March 25, 2017, 02:17:01 AM

This virus isn't new,it has existed since the early days of bitcoin on the darknet and other hack forums.
Virus or not,it's always a good practice to double check the bitcoin address you're sending coins to.
You can buy off that code from any hack forums,it's sold openly.
Use linux for bitcoin,makes your stuff secure by 80%

This virus can be scary for people who do not have the habit of double checking the Bitcoin address they want to send to. As for me, I always check three times if things are correct before I click the send button just to make sure I could never be a victim either of my own mistake or that of the virus problem. A month I was wondering how could this thing can happen because I have a problem who posted of the same problem...he lost his small hoard of Bitcoin because of this virus. We really have to be careful as this can never be the last time that this virus can create some menace.

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I've read about this virus before, I think it was around late last year. And somewhere in technical support.

Good thing I also double-triple check my addresses, especially after I read about the virus, I'd sometimes end up spending several minutes on the addresses alone. Grin

Anyway, as long as you got good antivirus/antimalware and you're always careful with your transactions, then it should be fine.

Frankly, I don't get people who don't bother to check their addresses or even their fees. I'd rather spend a few extra seconds/minutes than lose my BTC.

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Wow, that is actually pretty clever. I imagine most people wouldn't even notice the address changing when pasting. A serious malware right there.
Some of you say to use Linux because it's safer, for me myself the main reason I don't use Linux is because of games. Also Skype which I use daily (Skype for Linux is seriously outdated).

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Quote from: Amph on March 30, 2017, 12:55:14 AM

Quote from: Vivace92 on March 29, 2017, 04:23:27 AM

The most important is we must install the anti virus is the best, I'm using avira and I the settings for an auto update, things are going well and never found any problems.

if their package doesn't include this virus they can't detect it, if it's an old virus it will be detected, new antivirus have heuristic to identify zero day virus, but still soem can be undetected because use stealth technology

i use malwarebyte to detect most of the threat the last version can even detect stealth malware, avira i remember lead to too many false positive when i used this and slow down the computer start-up

Being prepared with antimalware and antivirus is one step far from getting infected but double checking the address when pasting is the best thing to do.

I know that we can't remember the whole bitcoin address but we can identify the first 5-6 characters and the last ones in order to be sure that we pasted the right address.

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Quote from: oktana on March 31, 2017, 01:58:03 PM

Quote from: BingoDog on March 31, 2017, 01:19:52 PM

Yeah, people are not careful enough and often don't pay attention, especialy on details. More and more malicious viruses are appearing each day and hackers are trying to get to our bitcoins. I always double or even triple check everything and I'm also trying to know the address of the wallet I use the most and keep the majority of my coins.

Sometimes people are reluctant to set 2FA because of its complexity, and they have more confidence in only using antivirus premium updates, if we want more account security really should be a bit complicated, if malware has attacked win32 exe, there is no other solution than reinstalling.

2 factor authentication is a must these days but don't let your guard down thinking everything is secure now, 2fa can be corrupted too.
It is not going to stop these types of attacks anyway, if people don't double check the address they are sending to it will still happen.

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Quote from: BingoDog on March 31, 2017, 01:19:52 PM

Yeah, people are not careful enough and often don't pay attention, especialy on details. More and more malicious viruses are appearing each day and hackers are trying to get to our bitcoins. I always double or even triple check everything and I'm also trying to know the address of the wallet I use the most and keep the majority of my coins.

Sometimes people are reluctant to set 2FA because of its complexity, and they have more confidence in only using antivirus premium updates, if we want more account security really should be a bit complicated, if malware has attacked win32 exe, there is no other solution than reinstalling.

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Yeah, people are not careful enough and often don't pay attention, especialy on details. More and more malicious viruses are appearing each day and hackers are trying to get to our bitcoins. I always double or even triple check everything and I'm also trying to know the address of the wallet I use the most and keep the majority of my coins.

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should be carefull guys
you must be know wallet address

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Solution is double check.
We should at least know our first to 5 digits or our wallet addresses. If you played online games this always happened, it was used for tricking the game into trading an item then suddenly changing it before the trade is completed. You will get a trash item.
Not new for me but it is a good warning for those who dont know yet. Dont haste the trade try to look again after pasting it.

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Well there are skilled hackers that will take advantage of bitcoin community and damage them, you shouldnt download anything without know the source, or make a scan over it, this virus is a well know already in this community. I remember last year someone complain about it, i do always check my adress and the adress of the person im dealing.

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Quote from: cryptocoinplay on March 25, 2017, 02:12:37 AM

Recently There's a Virus I am victim of it and some of my friends, clients etc are affected too. This is called Copy-Paste Virus.
Please be careful while you paste a BTC address or Copy an Address.

The virus works like-- You copied a BTC address to send and while you paste it, It changed to other address and the funds sends to other account.

Wow! that is one way to hack your system but I think this is not a virus but instead a fishing software that can definitely hack your bitcoin address whenever you click it or try to copy paste on it and I you need to check first the address that you are about to copy, and I think this is a Click bait kind of thing or Copy bait kind of hacking.

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Stop downloading and installing all these scam trojan altcoin wallets, when will you people learn? I imagine you'd go download and install and give administrative permissions to them without thinking first just to get a few bucks extra.
I always double-triple check my bank account address which is less than 14 digits but always check 5 first and 5 ending digits of any address that I copy, not every one using phone to scam the address with QR scanner app because that's the easiest and safest method to do bitcoin transaction.
I think the virus works somehow like sending the address you just copied and then a powerful computer generates a similar address as possible to trick you that it's the same address if you just check 2or3 first digits and if you have bandwidth monitoring program on your PC you could try and do some copy pasting to check which port is being used in that moment and then block that in your firewall.
There is no way a virus could generate an address which has 5 first and 5 ending digits/characters of your legit address.

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