This is extremely alarming the fact that scammers or hackers can now get into legitimate applications and softwares is very bothering we do not know where or what to use anymore in order to avoid these kinds of incidents it is hugely important that we now become extra careful as if we were not careful enough back then because we never know how a hack could be presenting itself
That's the problem, I must say that this attacks comes from the creators of this softwares, though hackers can never be underestimated, I think every system should have a backup in other to get rid of this shits in the system, this one of the reasons why it very difficult to convince some person to invest in crypto, Bitcoin has been seen by its enthusiast that it is the best coin money can buy but there are people doubting this statement because of the happenings in crypto world.
No matter what you use now it no more safe because hackers and scammers are coming up with different means to rip people of their funds, I think something has to done to this effect to avoid further occurrence.
Then you can consider the simplest and most logical method aimed at protecting your crypto and the system as a whole. You start using at least 2 isolated PCs with different OSes and different crypto wallets, different ISPs - one system for work, which will be most susceptible to the negative influence of scammers, and one for storing funds. This is a little expensive, but at the same time it greatly increases the security of your crypto.