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Cryptocurrency attack thwarted by npm team

2019-06-10 10:36

Cryptocurrency users narrowly escaped losing all their funds last week after an attacker poisoned a digital wallet with malicious code that stole their blockchain access details.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/06/10/thwarted-cryptocurrency-attack-shows-importance-of-testing-open-source-code/

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