Earlier this week, a user posting on the Ethereum subreddit (/r/Ethereum), the largest Ethereum community with over 131,000 members, revealed that malware installed on Windows computers is capable of altering Ethereum addresses when copying and pasting.
Major antivirus development firm Symantec first discovered a trojan named “Trojan.Coinbitclip” in February of 2016, which automatically detects Bitcoin wallet addresses and changes them as Windows users copy and paste the data onto online platforms. By spreading the trojan through phishing attacks and conventional malware distribution methods, hackers behind the malware were able to steal funds from Bitcoin users on Windows computers by reallocating Bitcoin payments to other wallet addresses.
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