MEGA’s Chrome extension laced with cryptocurrency-stealing malware

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by Sindy Cator on September 5, 2018 at 9:52 am

Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork

The threats to your cryptocurrency are coming in quick! File-sharing service MEGA has been hacked to steal private keys and passwords, TorrentFreak reports. MEGA has given details of a targeted attack, in which hackers managed to upload a malicious version of its Chrome browser extension to Google’s Play Store. For five hours, any user who ran the installer from the Play Store had their accounts compromised. Services affected include popular cryptocurrency wallet services MyEtherWallet (MEW), MyMonero, and decentralized asset exchange IDEX. Tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were also specifically targeted. There is currently no reliable information regarding how many…