How popular cryptocurrency wallets completely expose your private keys

How popular cryptocurrency wallets completely expose your private keys


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In this video I demonstrate how unsafe it is to run cryptocurrency wallets on vulnerable PCs. Simply by having the wallet running, your private key is exposed in plaintext and can be stolen by malware in a matter of seconds.

Although it is the responsibility of the user to keep their private keys secure, I think it is very unfortunate that developers don’t take even basic security measures to prevent this from happening so easily.

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