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Oct 25, 2026

Bitcoin wallet bug allowed rogue servers to steal funds during fee bumps

A flaw in Bitcoin wallet software let malicious Electrum servers replace users' just-broadcast payments with fake zero-fee transactions to lookalike addresses when users attempted to speed up payments.

Oct 25, 2026·2 sources
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Top claims

  • ▪An Electrum user named Raju-K12 reported on October 18, 2026 losing funds after increasing the transaction fee on a zero-fee transaction substituted by a malicious Electrum server
  • ▪An Electrum user operating a two-of-three multisignature Trezor setup submitted an incident report after noticing a substituted outgoing transaction in local history
  • ▪Electrum maintainers released version 4.8.3 to add signature checks for wallet-owned unconfirmed transactions

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