Chrome Web Store’s No. 4 crypto wallet can steal user seed phrases — TradingView News
Blockchain security platform Socket has warned of a new malicious crypto wallet extension on Google’s Chrome Web Store that has a unique way of stealing seed phrases to drain user assets.
The extension is called “Safery: Ethereum Wallet” and claims itself as a “reliable and secure browser extension designed for easy and efficient management” of Ethereum-based assets.
However, as highlighted in a Tuesday report from Socket, the extension is actually designed to steal seed phrases via a crafty backdoor.
“Marketed as a simple, secure Ethereum (ETH) wallet, it contains a backdoor that exfiltrates seed phrases by encoding them into Sui addresses and broadcasting microtransactions from a threat actor-controlled Sui wallet,” the…
