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Ledger Chrome Phishing Attack

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Incident Overview

Attacker creates malicious Ledger Chrome extensions and tricks users into downloading malicious Ledger Chrome extensions through Google search ad serving and other methods to steal users' cryptocurrency. So far, it is known that at least 1.4 million XRP are stolen.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://cointelegraph.com/news/fake-ledger-live-chrome-extension-stole-14m-xrp-researchers-claim (opens in a new tab)

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