Fake Solana Phantom security updates push crypto-stealing malware

ultrloa

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Quote from: _act_ on October 11, 2022, 02:22:07 AM

Fake Solana Phantom security updates push crypto-stealing malware

This security update said to be from Phantom but no, it is from hackers. Not even a security update but instead they are NFTs that will introduce malware into your wallet to compromise and steal from it.

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"Phantom requires all users to update their wallets. This must be done as soon as possible," reads the warning in the fake Phantom update NFT.

"Failing to do so, may result in loss of funds due to hackers exploiting the Solana network. Visit www.updatePhantom.com to get the latest security update."

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To risky to be seen by newbies since this kind of updates schemes used by hackers is kinda convincing since for sure when they see that they update just to think that there wallet should be updated to get more better experience for using the wallet. For seeing this always good to ask the support about some certain steps to be made so that we can verify is the said updates is truly legitimate.

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Wow this is a new one for me since I am not a fun of NFTs. So they are basically embedding malicious links in NFTs that are airdropped to people and then people are prompted to update their wallets by clicking on the embedded links Cheesy

looks like the link to the malware in the Dropbox has already been removed which is good news but the files was indeed infected with malware according to virustotal - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/08af70dc5eef750fdb412e7669e62d1909abf9f28de1cf2f5cd9c152fd1784e9?nocache=1

yazher

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Thanks for sharing it with us here most of the time, hackers are updating their strategy to steal crypto from newbies and those people that are not aware of the situation, so it's really better to just keep doing some research about preventing yourself from getting scammed and protecting your cryptos from such malicious acts. The only people who fell victim to those kinds of malware are those who don't consider taking some time to read topics that are concerning how these scammers steal people's crypto and what they need to do to prevent themselves from getting those random emails and malware.

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Fake Solana Phantom security updates push crypto-stealing malware

This security update said to be from Phantom but no, it is from hackers. Not even a security update but instead they are NFTs that will introduce malware into your wallet to compromise and steal from it.

Quote

"Phantom requires all users to update their wallets. This must be done as soon as possible," reads the warning in the fake Phantom update NFT.

"Failing to do so, may result in loss of funds due to hackers exploiting the Solana network. Visit www.updatePhantom.com to get the latest security update."

Read in details: Fake Solana Phantom security updates push crypto-stealing malware

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