Quote from: rokkyroad on February 08, 2019, 07:02:35 PM

Why do I keep seeing fresh reports of lost coins if people are being warned via electrums wallet?

Because Electrum is one of most popular light-weight/SPV wallet and people fell easily to social engineering attack (people believe "update" message from electrum server when they attempt to broadcast a transaction)

Quote from: rokkyroad on February 08, 2019, 07:02:35 PM

There seems to be a concerted effort to downplay the exploit when in fact it was serious shit.

Exploit which enable social engineering attack isn't that serious compared to another exploit which expose wallet's seed or private key IMO