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Covid-19 pandemic has turned the world upside down in the last year and a half, leaving us with no option but to rely more on digital solutions – from using food delivery to online banking. Needless to say, the more one relies on the digital world, the more vulnerable one becomes to online scams.
Now, scammers are targeting cryptocurrency users via a Firefox add-on named after SafePal. Dozens of Firefox users have fallen prey to an add-on masquerading as a valid extension of the SafePal cryptocurrency hardware wallet. What’s surprising is that this malicious add-on has lived on Mozilla’s Firefox web browser for almost seven months.
SafePal is a cryptocurrency wallet application capable of safely holding over 10,000 asset types, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. It is backed by Binance and it is now being used by over 2 million users in over 146 countries across the globe. While Safepal has official smartphone apps available on both the Apple AppStore and Google Play, no genuine Safepal extensions are known to exist for the Firefox browser.
The issue was highlighted by one of the victims, named Cali, in Firefox support group. “Today I browsed true the add-on list of
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