Jameson Lopp sounds alarm on Bitcoin address poisoning attacks

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Jameson Lopp warns of Bitcoin address poisoning attacks

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Jameson Lopp, the chief security officer at Bitcoin custody company Casa, sounded the alarm on Bitcoin address poisoning attacks, a social engineering scam that uses similar addresses from a victim's transaction history to fool them into sending funds to the malicious address.

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"Over these 18 months, just shy of 48,000 transactions were sent that match this profile of potential address poisoning," Lopp added.

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