{"id":242289,"date":"2026-08-06T16:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/coldcard-security-audit-phishing-attack-installs-remote-access-tool"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:45:47","slug":"coldcard-security-audit-phishing-attack-installs-remote-access-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/coldcard-security-audit-phishing-attack-installs-remote-access-tool","title":{"rendered":"COLDCARD security audit phishing attack installs remote access tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coldcard-security-audit-phishing-attack-installs-remote-access-tool2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A phishing campaign is exploiting fears surrounding the recently disclosed COLDCARD wallet vulnerability and suspected $88.6 million Bitcoin theft to trick users into installing ScreenConnect remote access software.<\/p>\n<p>Proofpoint, which discovered the campaign, says it uses emails impersonating COLDCARD that claim a security audit is underway across its hardware cold storage wallet devices.<\/p>\n<p>The phishing campaign comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/coldcard-wallet-rng-flaw-likely-linked-to-88-million-bitcoin-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">attackers recently stole approximately 1,367 Bitcoin<\/a>, worth an estimated $88.6 million, from 4,585 addresses using what is believed to be a random number generation flaw affecting multiple COLDCARD models and firmware versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A phishing campaign is exploiting fears surrounding the recently disclosed COLDCARD wallet vulnerability and suspected $88.6 million Bitcoin theft to trick users into installing ScreenConnect remote access software. Proofpoint, which discovered the campaign, says it uses emails impersonating COLDCARD that claim a security audit is underway across its hardware cold storage wallet devices. The phishing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}