Electrum
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| Long-running | +10 |
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anchored·3BCLeP…BcyrSummary
Electrum is an open-source, non-custodial Bitcoin wallet first released in November 2011 by Thomas Voegtlin and maintained by Electrum Technologies GmbH. It is widely regarded as one of the most feature-rich and long-standing Bitcoin desktop wallets, but has been the persistent target of large-scale phishing campaigns exploiting its open peer network architecture, resulting in more than $25 million in user losses documented between 2018 and 2020.
Connected Entities
3 entities · 60 linked investigations- Electrum→mentioned with→Bitcoin(80%)
- Electrum→mentioned with→Trezor(65%)
- Trezor→mentioned with→Bitcoin(65%)
Connected Through
3 shared actors · 447 investigationsDistinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.
- ♦Bitcointoken
- □Trezororganization
- □Electrumorganization
Timeline(12 events)
1 January 2013
Electrum Technologies GmbH incorporated to develop and distribute the Electrum software.
Electrum Official Website1 March 2016
Electrum 2.6 released, inadvertently introducing the JSONRPC missing-authorization vulnerability (CVE-2018-1000022) that would remain undetected for nearly two years.
Security Affairs1 November 2017
User 'jsmad' privately reports the JSONRPC vulnerability to Electrum developers.
Vice/Motherboard1 January 2018
Electrum releases version 3.0.4 attempting to patch the JSONRPC vulnerability; patch found to be incomplete. Version 3.0.5 fully addresses the flaw.
CVEdetails — CVE-2018-10000229 February 2018
CVE-2018-1000022 publicly disclosed with CVSS 3.0 score of 5.3 (Medium).
CVEdetails — CVE-2018-100002211 May 2018
Electrum team publicly exposes Electrum Pro, a copycat service at electrum.com distributing seed-stealing malware in Windows and macOS binaries.
CoinGeek27 December 2018
First public reports of phishing attacks via malicious ElectrumX servers; approximately 200 BTC (near $1 million) stolen in initial wave.
Decrypt1 April 2019
Electrum botnet (ElectrumDoSMiner) reaches over 152,000 infected hosts. Cumulative losses at this stage reported at approximately $4.6 million. Attackers pivot to DDoS against legitimate Electrum servers to force older clients onto malicious nodes.
The Hacker News1 August 2020
A single user reportedly loses 1,400 BTC (approximately $15.8 million at the time) via the fake-update phishing scheme.
HackRead1 September 2020
Cumulative phishing losses attributed to the multi-year campaign estimated at over $25 million (approximately 1,980 BTC) by investigative reporting.
Decrypt20 September 2025
Electrum version 4.6.2 released, with continued active maintenance.
Electrum Wallet Review 2026 — TradersUnionDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (4 decisions). 12 of 16 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 9/15/2026, 5:14:27 PM
last updated: 10/27/2026, 6:48:36 AM
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