Jameson Lopp, the chief security officer at Bitcoin ( data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-price” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>BTC) custody company Casa, sounded the alarm on Bitcoin address poisoning attacks, a social engineering scam that uses similar addresses from a victim’s transaction history to fool them into sending funds to the malicious address.
According to Lopp’s Feb 6 data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-address-poisoning-attacks/” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>article, the threat actors generate BTC addresses that match the first and last digits of addresses from the victim’s transaction history. Lopp analyzed the Bitcoin blockchain history for this data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/news/address-poisoning-attacks-in-crypto” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>type of attack and found:
“The first such transactions… lockquote>
