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How is copying clipboard better than a keylogger? Why would they choose that?

• xzel 6y ago
  I'm not positive about this but keylogger actions have been picked up by anti-virus before. You might be able to decrease the chance you're caught as well by using this method. And what the other comment below me said about copying and pasting wallet details. This is actually an interesting attack against password manager usage. There are a lot of websites I use that autofill doesn't work correctly.
• ceejayoz 6y ago
  Virtually no one manually types in a wallet address. You copy/paste it. > Once inside, the malware executed a malicious script that starts an infinite loop to capture a user’s clipboard data—with the goal of redirecting all potential cryptocurrency transactions to their wallet address. Sounds like they were replacing the pasted addresses with their own when you paste it in the "transfer currency to..." fields.
  • meowface 6y ago
    It's a clever idea, but it seems weird to me they'd do just that and not also try to steal the wallet.dat.