Leak -- Compromised MEMO key successfully detected

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It's a new day and another user leaked one of their private keys into the Hive Blockchain.

They COMPROMISED their:

private MEMO key

HOW: in a transfer_to_savings operation


The compromised account owner has now been notified in multiple ways. The identity of the user will be disclosed only in the monthly report in order to give them time to address the issue.

Compromised account stats:

  • Reputation: 53

  • Followers: 22

  • Account creation: 9/2022

  • Last social action on chain: 2023/11/14

  • Estimated account value: $ 22.51


Top 5 private ACTIVE keys protected:

1. @nextgen622: ~$ 28,000
2. @cryptoandcoffee: ~$ 8,400
3. @runridefly: ~$ 3,300
4. @globalmerchantio: ~$ 250
5. @j3dy: ~$ 120 (500 HIVE automatically protected for 9 days)
My security disclosures for Hive:
- XSS vulnerabilities in #########.com
- XSS vulnerabilities in hive-db.com
- XSS vulnerabilities in scribe.hivekings.com
- XSS vulnerabilities in hiveblockexplorer.com
- Malicious ads redirecting all Steemit iOS users to a phishing site
- Reverse tabnabbing and clickjacking in steem.chat and steeemit registration page

Other contributions:
- Universal script to prevent phishing in all Hive frontends
- Commands for community reports and ban/mute lists

 Future development: Ā  plan

 Last report: https://peakd.com/@keys-defender/monthly-report-june-july-august-2021-hive-13323

Keys-Defender features:

- Keys protection [live scan of transfers/posts/comments/other_ops. Warnings (reply and memo), auto-transfers to savings until fully restored, auto-reset of keys, ..] {see automatic posts on leak and monthly reports}
- Phishing protection [live scan of comments and posts to warn users against known phishing campaigns and compromised domains or accounts, scan of memos and auto-replies, anti phishing countermeasures - eg. fake credentials]
- Re-posting detection [mitigates the issue of re-posters]
- Code injection detection [live scan of blocks for malicious code targeting dapps of the Hive ecosystem]
- Anti abuse efforts [counteracts spam from hive haters and milking campaigns]


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- Delegations:Ā  10, 50, 100
- Curation trail: join my curation trail to upvote all my posts with a fixed weight.
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Why in Hive Gaming, though?

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Just going to ask same, why in Hive Gaming man?

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Sorry about that!
75% of the times it uses Hive statistics or the Cybersecurity community, the remaining 25 it picks some others.
Did not remember that Hive Gaming was in there! šŸ˜¬
Removed šŸ‘

(the leak post is manually triggered by a command in a private discord)

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Sorry about that!
75% of the times it uses Hive statistics or the Cybersecurity community, the remaining 25 it picks some others.
Did not remember that Hive Gaming was in there! šŸ˜¬
Removed šŸ‘

(the leak post is manually triggered by a command in a private discord)

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