Nick Bax

In January 2018, Andrew Schober was tricked into downloading a purported cryptocurrency wallet called “Electrum Atom” (also deployed under the name “Electrum Gold”) which resulted in approximately 16.4 Bitcoins being stolen from him [1]. Electrum Atom turned out to be an early variation of what has been dubbed “clipboard hijacker” malware [2,3]. The malware monitored the copy-paste (or “clipboard”) function of the infected computer until it detected that the user had copied a Bitcoin address. When the ma...

Contributors: Nicolas A. Bax, PhD and an unnamed contributor. MAYC/Getty Images Leaked slides belonging to Chainalysis recently surfaced. They include the claim that Monero transactions related to the WannaCry 2.0 ransomware were traced as they were converted back to the transparent BTC and BCH blockchains. Here, I demonstrate how the WannaCry 2.0 funds were traceable using publicly-available information. Coindesk has reported more widely on the content of the slides and the new pieces of information con...