{"id":617464,"date":"2026-06-21T08:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=824600"},"modified":"2026-06-21T08:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:30:03","slug":"microsoft-warns-of-new-usb-based-malware-targeting-crypto-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/microsoft-warns-of-new-usb-based-malware-targeting-crypto-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Warns of New USB-Based Malware Targeting Crypto Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/windowsvirus-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Laptop infected with virus\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Microsoft has alerted about a malware that spreads through flash drives that use Windows shortcut files to infect devices. The so-called \u201cclipper\u201d malware searches for crypto addresses in the clipboard and substitutes them with other addresses controlled by attackers. Microsoft Alerts About Windows Malware That Changes Cryptocurrency Addresses The team behind Microsoft Defender, Windows\u2019 embedded [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has alerted about a malware that spreads through flash drives that use Windows shortcut files to infect devices. The so-called \u201cclipper\u201d malware searches for crypto addresses in the clipboard and substitutes them with other addresses controlled by attackers. Microsoft Alerts About Windows Malware That Changes Cryptocurrency Addresses The team behind Microsoft Defender, Windows\u2019 embedded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-617464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}