Google Deletes Crypto Malware Targeting Blockchain.com, MyEtherWallet Users

guest · Mar 15, 2019

Google Deletes Crypto Malware Targeting Blockchain.com, MyEtherWallet Users
March 15, 2019
https://cointelegraph.com/news/goog...e-targeting-blockchaincom-myetherwallet-users

A Google Chrome browser extension tricking users into participating in a fake airdrop from cryptocurrency exchange Huobi claimed over 200 victims, a security researcher reported in a blog post on March 14.

The extension for Chrome web browser, with the name NoCoin, gained 230 downloads before Google deleted it, according to Harry Denley, who runs cryptocurrency scam database EtherscamDB.
Denley noted that hackers had purposely disguised the malicious extension to look like a tool protecting users from cryptocurrency malware or so-called cryptojacking.

Behind the facade, however, it became apparent the extension requests the input of private keys from popular wallet interfaces MyEtherWallet (MEW) and Blockchain.com. Private keys are then sent to hackers, who can empty wallets of holdings.
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