THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoin Gold BTG has aloof issued a admonishing about a apprehensive book of alien agent begin on their download links on their web folio and on their Github absolution page
It seems that Bitcoin Gold has been dealt added than their allotment of bad luck recently. The aggregation is still mired in the after-effects of the MyBTGWallet scam, and now they accept been hit with addition botheration that is causing them to issue a analytical warning to their customers. BTG has appear that they accept begin a apprehensive book of alien agent on a articulation on their download folio and on their Github absolution folio book downloads.
Bitcoin Gold (BTG) states in their analytical admonishing that the book has been present in the articulation for about 36 hours. The book does not activate antivirus/anti-malware software, however, in an affluence of caution, BTG is audacious that the file. BTG presumes that the book is of awful absorbed to abduct user advice and/or cryptocurrency.
The analytical admonishing by BTG states:
BTG reminds users to consistently affirm their downloaded files via SHA-256 checksum.
Here are the afflicted links impacted by the apprehensive file:
Project Github Repository:
https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU/releases/tag/0.15.0.1
Project Download Page:
https://bitcoingold.org/downloads/
Windows book Download SHA-256:
53e01dd7366e87fb920645b29541f8487f6f9eec233cbb43032c60c0398fc9fa bitcoingold-0.15.0-win64-setup.exe
Linux book Download SHA-256 Hash:
SHA-256: 25d7bf0deb125ecf5b50925a1c58e98c4b0b0a524470379c952f6b9310e97cfe bitcoingold-0.15.0-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.zip
BTG addendum that the links on the Download folio point to the Github athenaeum for the project, which is a accepted action to articulation the antecedent cipher with the aggregate files. A affair of alien agent replaced the aggregate Windows book with a altered one on the Github repository. It is important to agenda that the Linux book was not afflicted and that the Github athenaeum has been secured. The apprehensive book has been replaced with a safe one, and the development aggregation is accomplishing a aegis analysis to accomplish abiding all systems are safe.
Lastly, BTG states that the antecedent cipher was unchanged. If you downloaded the antecedent cipher to abridge it yourself, you should be fine. However, Bitcoin Gold does advance that users analysis that their bounded athenaeum matches the accepted Github athenaeum and abide to exercise acute caution.
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