The fourth round of the new scam in the cryptocurrency circle: clipboard hijacking
Have you ever had this experience, one day when you open Taobao or a food delivery app, it suddenly shows that someone has sent you a shopping red envelope.
This is actually your clipboard being hijacked. Now it is more common that some low-end small programs and apps will implant their red envelope passwords in your clipboard, and then you consume them to get cashback. This is not bad, you get a discount, they also make money, and no one will report it.
But this way happens in the cryptocurrency circle, it is another matter.
Take my friend as an example. Last year he searched for a ladder apk on the Internet, downloaded it and used it well, but soon he lost 20 eth. What happened?
When we traced it, we found that when he transferred 20 eth, he copied his wallet address to paste it, and the ladder immediately hijacked the clipboard and modified his paste address. He transferred it without looking carefully. Well, it was directly transferred to the ladder scammer.
It can be modified and read.
I believe many of you have the habit of copying and pasting private keys into Notepad. Suppose there is a junk application in your computer/mobile phone that reads the clipboard, think about the consequences.
Sometimes the coins are lost without anyone noticing, this is the reason.
So, how to deal with it:
1. It is best to keep the mobile phone/computer that operates the coins clean, and do not download some unknown junk apps. If you really have to download, cancel the clipboard permission of the APP.
2. Before transferring coins, check the address, don't think that copying and pasting will be safe.
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