Quote from: Artemis3 on January 29, 2020, 06:35:04 PM

Quote from: kingcolex on January 26, 2020, 12:59:47 AM

You are seriously not saying that a fully updated windows machine is naturally compromised. Windows machines (and servers) run tons of extremely sensitive data that is constantly under target and attack. This is not an operating systems issue this is a failure of OP who probably downloaded a fake wallet or most likely is just lying to get pitty donation funds.

Well i have seen it before, so that might be so. Even having the system secured and updated is not safe enough. Airgap might help your company server, but you are taking a giant risk. There are zero day exploits, there are "private" exploits now known by few discoverers but kept secret until needed. Usually those are not seen for widespread attacks, but can for targeted attacks. OP might have drawn someone's attention.

This is the fundamental problem of "security by obscurity". By hiding the code, is not like exploits don't exist, they do. And worst of it is they remain hidden for much longer than with open source.

It might be something simple like you say, but its always a good moment to call everyone's attention. Do not fool yourself thinking a well maintained Windows is ever good enough, it isn't. The thing didn't earn its bad fame for free. A better OS also needs maintaining, but its far easier to keep those secure than Windows ever will and this is a rock solid fact backed by decades of experience. Sure, you can make a living maintaining those (maybe thanks for being what it is), but that doesn't mean its any good. Internet is not run by Windows servers, they remain a minority for this very reason.

Quote from: kingcolex on January 30, 2020, 01:21:06 AM

Quote from: Artemis3 on January 29, 2020, 06:35:04 PM

Quote from: kingcolex on January 26, 2020, 12:59:47 AM

You are seriously not saying that a fully updated windows machine is naturally compromised. Windows machines (and servers) run tons of extremely sensitive data that is constantly under target and attack. This is not an operating systems issue this is a failure of OP who probably downloaded a fake wallet or most likely is just lying to get pitty donation funds.

Well i have seen it before, so that might be so. Even having the system secured and updated is not safe enough. Airgap might help your company server, but you are taking a giant risk. There are zero day exploits, there are "private" exploits now known by few discoverers but kept secret until needed. Usually those are not seen for widespread attacks, but can for targeted attacks. OP might have drawn someone's attention.

This is the fundamental problem of "security by obscurity". By hiding the code, is not like exploits don't exist, they do. And worst of it is they remain hidden for much longer than with open source.

It might be something simple like you say, but its always a good moment to call everyone's attention. Do not fool yourself thinking a well maintained Windows is ever good enough, it isn't. The thing didn't earn its bad fame for free. A better OS also needs maintaining, but its far easier to keep those secure than Windows ever will and this is a rock solid fact backed by decades of experience. Sure, you can make a living maintaining those (maybe thanks for being what it is), but that doesn't mean its any good. Internet is not run by Windows servers, they remain a minority for this very reason.

There are plenty of huge companies and businesses running on windows and windows servers, if someone had an exploit that gave them full access to a windows environment they wouldn't be using it to pull off a double spend attack, they would be doing more profitable hacks like those shitty ransom attacks. I think it's obvious what happened was a phishing attack and this resulted in a double spend attack.

I see that most probably did not understand what happened ... There was no double spending here !!! I received the funds at my BTC address (where they were still available for 30 minutes after posting). Wanting to make a payment to the stock exchange -> I realized that these measures have already been taken! There was no double spend attack!