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Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations(bleepingcomputer.com)
15 points by akyuu 13 hours ago | 4 comments
mwkaufma 13 hours ago | parent [-]

TL;DR - crypto-drainer malware.

3eb7988a1663 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Is it common that an unlocked wallet is sitting on someone's machine? I would have assumed that you would put a SSH like passphrase onto the thing. Or are they stealing browser cookies that have a login to Coinbase or similar?

akimbostrawman 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

From the screenshots they are collecting the information from browser addon wallets which are usually less secure hot wallets.

cedws 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t know about Coinbase but Kraken has protections such that even if you had a cookie you couldn’t withdraw funds, in addition to security key/OTP support. Apparently people still don’t understand hardware wallets either. Nobody deserves to be a victim of theft but this is pure negligence. Don’t handle crypto if you don’t know how to handle crypto.