Microsoft identifies malware ‘worm’ that hijacks crypto wallets, spreads through USB drives
The wallet-stealing component monitors Windows’ clipboard, the hidden temporary memory used for copy-and-paste operations, roughly every 500 milliseconds. When a user copies a crypto wallet seed phrase or a private key for a Bitcoin or Ethereum wallet, the malware captures that data and sends it to the attacker’s server over the Tor network, an open-source…