Hacker infects Ripple’s XRP Ledger software with crypto stealing ‘backdoor’ – DL News
- A hacker infected official developer software for Ripple’s XRP Ledger blockchain.
- The malicious software versions have since been replaced with clean ones.
A hacker compromised a key piece of software used by developers of Ripple’s XRP Ledger blockchain on Monday, putting thousands of users’ funds at risk, according to Aikido, a crypto security firm.
Aikido discovered that a hacker had infected the official XRP Ledger node package manager with malicious code at 8:53pm UK time on Monday.
The software is used by “hundreds of thousands of applications and websites making it a potentially catastrophic supply chain attack on the cryptocurrency ecosystem,” Charlie Eriksen, an Aikido security researcher, said in a report.
