Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds

guest · Jun 6, 2019

Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds
Backdoor discovered in Agama cryptocurrency wallet. Unconventional tactic saves users from getting robbed
June 6, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/crypt...re-hacker-gets-a-chance-to-steal-users-funds/

[...] the Komodo Platform learned about a backdoor in one of its older wallet apps named Agama.
Knowing they had little time to act, the Komodo team said it used the same backdoor to extract users' funds from all impacted wallets and move them to a safe location, out of the hacker's reach.
THE BACKDOOR
The backdoor in the Agama wallet app was discovered during an audit by the security team of the npm JavaScript package repository.

Npm staff said they identified a malicious update for the electron-native-notify (version 1.1.6) JavaScript library, which contained code designed to steal cryptocurrency wallet seeds and other login passphrases specific to cryptocurrency apps.
The seeds and passphrases would have allowed a hacker to connect to the cryptocurrency accounts managed through the Agama wallet and steal users' funds.
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