Clipboard Hijacking 😈

What it is, how to do it, and how to prevent it

Martin Thoma
InfoSec Write-ups
Published in
4 min readJan 24, 2023

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We regularly copy and paste stuff. Sometimes, the copied characters contain important information such as bank numbers or crypto wallet addresses. Attackers can replace the copied address with an address under their control. Hence you might accidentally transfer money to an attacker instead of your original target.

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