Hey Steemians,
Are you sure your Cryptocurrencies are safe within your private or online wallets?
Are you taking necessary precautions to transmit your funds ?
In the real incident, last week one of our friends lost his funds due to his own negligence. He invested in an ICO and gave them his ether wallet address to receive the coins. He had some technical issue with his system where after copying and pasting wallet address, the alpha-numeric digits reshuffle own their own. He was warned by @BunnyChum strictly to fix the issue. After the release of ICO when we did not receive the coin, he directly got in touch with ICO admins and got to know that they have already sent the coins to the address he mentioned. Now due to his negligence, while copying and pasting the ether wallet address, he did not bother to verify the address before submitting. In this irrevocable action and his carelessness, he has lost nearly $500.
Referring to recent news, one of the Trojan name CryptoShuffle is also harming your computers in the same way and can result in stealing your funds/coins from you. Kaspersky Labs, leading firm in CyberSecurity, has issued an warning to Cryptocurrencies owners that assuming if there coins are safe in their private wallet, cannot be 100% correct. This newly discovered Trojan is harming users via getting into their systems and making alterations with Clipboard. While processing a transaction, when you try to copy and paste a wallet address, it automatically changes that particular address to their own, resulting in stealing your funds via forwarding your money to their own wallet address instead of the wallet address that you copied and intended to paste.
The easiest way to avoid this harm and protect your Cryptocurrencies is your Alertness. Whenever you are making a transaction or sending/receiving money from/to your wallets, you need to spend few extra seconds and be alert enough to manually verify the address that you have copied and pasted. It should be exactly same as you intended to copy/paste. Also you should consider using some reliable anti-virus anti-malware application in your computers to avoid such incidents. When we are fully aware that any transactions in Cryptocurrencies are irreversible, why not be extra careful when we are forwarding our money to any other wallets. With the increase in popularity of Cryptocurrencies, the risk of loosing them also increase. Its only we and our alertness that can help us to protect our money from online burglars and hackers.
