Hackers inject ‘coin-stealing’ malware into official Monero cryptocurrency wallet

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero has warned users that hackers compromised its official website after a coin stealer “CLI binaries available on http://getmonero.org  may have been compromised at some point during the last 24h. Investigations ongoing,” a Monero core developer said on Twitter. Although the investigation is ongoing, core developers for the project have issued an update confirming that the binaries of the CLI [ Command Line Interface] wallet had been compromised for a short time. CLI wallets are lightweight console programs, as opposed to GUI wallets, which have a graphical interface. Users who downloaded binaries throughout yesterday, and failed to check the integrity of the files, should do…

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