Verified Steam Game Steals Streamer's Cancer Treatment Donations

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A verified Steam game was found to contain crypto-drainer malware, stealing a streamer's cancer treatment donations, but some crypto community members rallied to cover the loss.

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mwkaufma

3 months ago

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TL;DR - crypto-drainer malware.

3eb7988a1663

3 months ago

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Is it common that an unlocked wallet is sitting on someone's machine? I would have assumed that you would put a SSH like passphrase onto the thing. Or are they stealing browser cookies that have a login to Coinbase or similar?

cedws

3 months ago

I don’t know about Coinbase but Kraken has protections such that even if you had a cookie you couldn’t withdraw funds, in addition to security key/OTP support. Apparently people still don’t understand hardware wallets either. Nobody deserves to be a victim of theft but this is pure negligence. Don’t handle crypto if you don’t know how to handle crypto.

akimbostrawman

3 months ago

From the screenshots they are collecting the information from browser addon wallets which are usually less secure hot wallets.

xp84

3 months ago

If you want to feel better about humanity don’t miss this part:

> However, some members of the crypto community offered to cover the loss. Crypto influencer Alex Becker said that he sent Rastaland $32,500 to a safe wallet.

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