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SecuritySource: Bitcoinist ·

Electrum Wallet Flaw Allowed Servers To Trick Users Into Paying Hackers

Electrum, one of Bitcoin’s oldest software wallets, published a security advisory on Saturday describing a weakness that attackers were already abusing. TL;DR A bug in the Electrum bitcoin wallet let malicious servers slip fake pending payments into users’ transaction history.

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