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Quote from: secondbtc on February 12, 2019, 12:29:42 AM

If you received 0.00000546 BTC, where did it come from and do I need to be worried?” If you’ve received a small amount of BTC and aren’t sure where it came from, you may be a victim of a dusting attack. Learn how they may affect you.

Visit - https://cryptomaa.com/btc/received-0-00000546-btc-for-free-scam-dusting-attack/

As long as you don't share your private key you should not be worried.

If you want to eliminate any risk, just go for a hardware wallet in case you didn't do it already.

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Quote from: qiman on February 12, 2019, 01:27:56 AM

This is very scary news indeed. My Wife I remember got hacked in her blockchain Bitcoin wallet a few years ago

is it because your wife wallet got dusted or because something else? to me it sounds like phishing attack or something similar, it's not possible from dusting attack attacker would get your private key or something similar. dusting attack can be avoided, you can simply omit this from your input when you make a transaction.

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Ah i remember binance posting this in their social media account, but since i don't receive it then i don't really care about it but looks like i need to be careful in the future.

Quote from: avikz on February 12, 2019, 01:24:53 AM

How can hackers track my identity using a small transaction? Can someone knowledgeable explain this? Looking at the nature of the attack, it looks very similar to the ransomware attack we faced earlier. If that is the case, only tax evading big bitcoin hoarders should be worried.

Binance make article about it and explain it

Quote from: https://www.binance.vision/security/what-is-a-dusting-attack

Scammers recently realized that Bitcoin users do not pay much attention to these tiny amounts showing up in their wallets, so they began "dusting" a large number of addresses by sending a few satoshis to them. They then started to track those funds and all transactions of those dusted wallets, which allowed them to link addresses and to eventually determine the companies or individuals behind those wallet addresses. This knowledge can later be used to construct targeted phishing attacks or attacks such as cyber-extortion on unaware victims.

and looks like this is not the first time this dusting attack happen.

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This is very scary news indeed. My Wife I remember got hacked in her blockchain Bitcoin wallet a few years ago and we found the hacker was using an IP out of Indonesia and another time she got hacked was out of Thailand, we reported both I.PS but of course in those days it was a highly unregulated market, more so than now so I doubt police ever did anything to catch the hackers, as things like human trafficking and murder are much higher on their list of priorities and things like drugs etc. I sincerely hope an anti hacking task force will be put into play all over the world and especially in Asian countries where Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin is very big. We have almost no Bitcoin now so I doubt they will be targeting us, with dust or no dust.

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If you received 0.00000546 BTC in your wallet then beware from such transfer, Scammer does this in order to track your identity and then ask you money for not revealing your identity.

How can hackers track my identity using a small transaction? Can someone knowledgeable explain this? Looking at the nature of the attack, it looks very similar to the ransomware attack we faced earlier. If that is the case, only tax evading big bitcoin hoarders should be worried.

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Quote from: poochpocket on February 12, 2019, 12:51:38 AM

Dusting Attack is only profitable on the wallets with huge number of funds.

If an individual person holds large amount of Bitcoin in a wallet it is truly unsafe as the best way to save large number of funds in a secure way is a hardware wallet.

Using a hardware wallet can solve this problem at some extended for individual owner but its still a problem for the wallets working under a crypto company which has thousands of Bitcoin saved in a signal wallet.

You can check this thread to get some important info on how the attack is made and how can we prevent it. Also we can concluded that this is already happing from long time.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/someone-sending-out-millibits-282238

Not only by holding huge number of funds can get attack, but they are targeting to the users who are using same btc address for high volume of transaction so when they target they get good amount of btc on hacking. That is why it is recommended to not use same wallet address to receive high volume of transaction which can cause you in trouble. If you are to use same address then better transfer the btc to another address immediately so that they cannot track your transactions.

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Dusting Attack is only profitable on the wallets with huge number of funds.

If an individual person holds large amount of Bitcoin in a wallet it is truly unsafe as the best way to save large number of funds in a secure way is a hardware wallet.

Using a hardware wallet can solve this problem at some extended for individual owner but its still a problem for the wallets working under a crypto company which has thousands of Bitcoin saved in a signal wallet.

You can check this thread to get some important info on how the attack is made and how can we prevent it. Also we can concluded that this is already happing from long time.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/someone-sending-out-millibits-282238

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If you received 0.00000546 BTC, where did it come from and do I need to be worried?” If you’ve received a small amount of BTC and aren’t sure where it came from, you may be a victim of a dusting attack. Learn how they may affect you.

Visit - https://cryptomaa.com/btc/received-0-00000546-btc-for-free-scam-dusting-attack/

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