Security News > 2018 > April > Exfiltrating private keys from air-gapped cold wallets

Air-gapped cold wallets might be one of the safest options for keeping your cryptocurrency stash, but even they can be compromised. And, as demonstrated by security researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, extracting private keys from such a wallet can be done relatively easily. Pulling off the attacks The attacks they demonstrated rely on the offline wallet being already compromised by malware, but once that’s achieved the keys can be sent to … More → The post Exfiltrating private keys from air-gapped cold wallets appeared first on Help Net Security.

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