Electrum Imposter Shuts Down Website after Being Exposed as ‘Bitcoin-Stealing Malware’

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Copycat bitcoin wallet service “Electrum Pro” has shut down its website after the company it was attempting to impersonate released evidence demonstrating its software was “bitcoin-stealing malware.”

As CCN reported, the team behind Electrum (electrum.org) — a popular lightweight bitcoin wallet that has been around since 2011 — released evidence on GitHub demonstrating that the so-called Electrum Pro (electrum.com) was actually malware designed to steal users’ recovery seeds.

Here is a verifiable proof that "Electrum Pro", a fake version of @ElectrumWallet, is in fact Bitcoin-stealing malware:https://t.co/FvhkTp29wI

— Electrum (@ElectrumWallet) May 9, 2018

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