There's also malware that monitors 2.3 million Bitcoin addresses: thanks to the public blockchain it's easy to create a list of all addresses that are worth stealing, and include a couple million similar addresses in the malware.
I sincerely don't understand what "monitoring" means here...
Are they monitoring used addresses so if a user tries to send a transaction to a known adress they have one resembling it to replace it?
That would be more effective for a reused address but a total fails with newly generated addresses.
Also, one of the exchanges I use gives me the same deposit address each time, but every time I deposit something the adress is emptied in the next block in a batch transaction collecting funds, so ...that would probably make the adress free from monitoring?
I really wonder how they are choosing them..How to prevent this
Don't use Windows
Drop Windows and 80% of the issues are goneDon't use Windows
But a monkey behind a Volvo and it will become the deadliest car in history.