Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire portfolios

Re:Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire port... by scotty79 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:34AM (#36184791)

It's an app on a phone. It's only as self custodied as your front porch is. With entirety of the internet as your neighborhood.

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Re:Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire port... by lxgr on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:25AM (#36185418)

Are you implying that the compromise happened due to an OS or app store level exploit/vulnerability?

If not, I don’t see how an app on a phone is worse than on a desktop.

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Re:Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire port... by scotty79 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:50PM (#36187137)

It's worse because people use more phones then desktops, and they commonly use them for payments which makes them juicier target than desktops.

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Re:Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire port... by lxgr on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:12PM (#36187943)

So the lesson is to use unpopular, yet still secure (i.e. audited and transparently and competently developed) software/hardware?

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Re:Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire port... by scotty79 on Monday June 05, 2023 @06:07AM (#36194377)

Yes.

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Re:Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire port... by lxgr on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:23PM (#36199662)

Good luck finding something (lasting) checking all the boxes – sounds like an extremely unstable equilibrium to me.

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Re:Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire port... by scotty79 on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:52PM (#36204416)

It's been surprisingly easy for the last two decades. Just use about third most popular Linux.

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