LottieFiles supply chain attack exposes users to malicious crypto wallet drainer LottieFiles is overcoming something of a Halloween fright after battling to regain control of a compromised developer account that was used to exploit users' crypto wallets. Nattu Adnan, co-founder and CTO at LottieFiles – best known for its popular website animation plugin, LottiePlayer – confirmed on Thursday that a highly …
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I was starting to believe the commentards had completely lost the talent for victim blaming and shaming. You have renewed my faith.
Having dealt with the super old, I can think of reasons why someone would fall for something so obvious. I'm not just considering the cognitive decline, there is also an innocence that is almost childlike. Also, there are many medications which make people highly subjectable - there is a reason you are told after certain surgical procedures to avoid any financial transactions, and they require you have someone you trust take you home.
Stupid Old People and Crypto Wallets are streams that don’t cross:
As I have repeated endlessly to ny Dad - *Everyone* on the Internet wants to help themselves to *YOUR* money- Esp Google, Apple and Microsoft.
Banks, Microsoft, Apple do not call you unless you have a paid for support contract- if there is ay issue they will suspend your account.
It definitely hit the iOS app for the Something Awful forums. That's now been patched, but all users were advised to uninstall it completely and change their passwords.
The moral: pin your library versions until an update has been declared safe and secure.
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