Jan 14, 2023
Cryptocurrency users are becoming victim of address poisoning attacks
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: cryptocurrencies
Scammers may commit address poisoning by sending meaningless transactions to your account from an wallet address that is very similar to the one you use.
In case you were unaware of this fact beforehand, your wallet consists of one or more accounts, each of which has its own unique address that was created cryptographically. These are lengthy hexadecimal numbers, which means that they include both numerical and (a few) alphabetical characters. This is because hexadecimal numbers employ both sets of characters. Because of this characteristic, they are incomprehensible to the vast majority of individuals and, more importantly, very difficult to recall.
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