His copy-pasted wallet address was intercepted in the clipboard by malware and replaced with attacker’s hardcoded bitcoin address. As an aware and experienced user, he quickly suspected that malware was involved – and he was right: his investigation of what could be the cause eventually found that malware was indeed the cause. He first noticed something is wrong, when he tried to copy-paste his Monero address into another place as usual and the address suddenly started being refused for being invalid. The user Crawsh from /r/monero subreddit was one of the victims with such a story, but luckily for him, his story had a happy ending. We found three trojanized applications hosted on, which is one of the most popular software hosting sites in the world as its Alexa rank (163th) shows. Sometimes even such a basic and obvious advice might not save you from malware encounters.

In today’s day and age, when you ask a security expert about some basic tips to stay safe on the web, one of the most important things he will probably tell you is to download software only from legitimate sources.

ESET researchers dicovered that Trojanized applications used to steal bitcoin were hosted inadvertently by the popular website.

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