Top-ranked Chrome ‘wallet’ sneakily steals crypto seedphrases

For a few days in November, a malicious Chrome extension ranked as the fourth result for “Ethereum wallet” on the Chrome Web Store. The extension, called “Safery: Ethereum Wallet,” looked polished ...

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Top-ranked Chrome ‘wallet’ sneakily steals crypto seedphrases

Source: CryptoSlate

For a few days in November, a malicious Chrome extension ranked as the fourth result for “Ethereum wallet” on the Chrome Web Store. The extension, called “Safery: Ethereum Wallet,” looked polished enough to pass as legitimate. It had a clean icon, a generic name adjacent to security language, a flood of five-star reviews, and boilerplate […]