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BEARISH STABLE BTC

Security vulnerabilities in widely-deployed ad tech infrastructure create systemic risk for cryptocurrency users through address-swapping attacks

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SOURCE EVIDENCE

"Attackers modified a JavaScript file served by advertising technology company Adform, turning it into a browser-side tool that rewrites cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Anyone who visited a site carrying the affected script on July 27 and copied a Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Tron address may have pasted a different address inserted by the malicious code instead."

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