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A user with the nickname Bonifac had his cryptocurrency stolen in a rather sophisticated way.
He told about this on his social network. The man tried to send 4 bitcoins to the exchange address, but they did not reach the recipient. Upon careful examination, he was convinced that the address to which he had just transferred his funds did not match the exchange address. He copied the address from the clipboard to a notepad and compared it with the address offered by the exchange. They were completely different.
How could it happen that after copying the address on the exchange, he still sent his funds to a third-party wallet. Most likely, one of the varieties of virus programs got onto his computer, which will replace the address in the clipboard. And what's more, it does it very professionally, substituting the address that corresponds to the selected crypto coin.
The user, for the sake of experiment, tried to send a small amount of ether coins by copying the address from the same exchange and made sure that the address in the clipboard became completely different, while corresponding to the ether blockchain network.
This new virus is completely different from the old ones. It was not detected by any antivirus program installed on the victim's computer. This could be a real problem in the future for the security of crypto payments. Today, nothing is known about this virus. And in order not to become its victim, before sending your funds, you need to carefully check your wallets. Check every letter.
