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An anonymous cryptocurrency investor with the username “Sell When Over” on X has reported a loss of $800,000 due to two allegedly malicious Google Chrome browser extensions.
Total compromise appears to be about $800k. I suspect this was a Google chrome compromise containing a possible keylogger targeting specific wallet extension apps (either due to a Chrome vulnerability due to me delaying regular updates or getting malware that wasn’t detected by…Several weeks prior, the trader repeatedly postponed an update for Google Chrome. However, a mandatory Windows update eventually forced a system restart.
The user suspects that the keylogger compromised their sensitive information, leading to funds being drained afterward. The user also did not observe any abnormal behavior in their browser following the restart, with their virus scanner indicating no issues and no other suspicious extensions.After the preliminary investigation, they identified two suspicious extensions – “Sync test beta” and “Simple Game” and an auto Korean translation setting enabled in Chrome.
“This is an $800k costly mistake – lesson is if anything seems off such that it prompts you to input a seed, then wipe the whole PC first,” the trader cautioned.that their guard had been down because the update coincided with a major Chrome update, which included changes to the user selection process and the sign-in interface with Google. This led them to think that the reset of extensions and the loss of tabs were due to this significant update.
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