New Crypto Nightmare: Printer Drivers Hijack Your Wallet!

Hang onto your hats, crypto fans! MistTrack just blew the whistle on a slick new scam that's swiping your digital cash straight from your wallet—through your printer driver! Yep, you heard that right. Your trusty printer could be the gateway to a hacker's paradise.

In a bombshell alert, SlowMist's cybersecurity squad is sounding the alarm about this stealthy menace creeping into the crypto world. These crooks are using a rogue printer driver to sneak in a backdoor program that's all about hijacking your clipboard and swapping out your wallet address for the thief's own!

"The official driver provided by this printer carries a backdoor program. It will hijack the wallet address in the user's clipboard and replace it with the attacker's address," the web3 security gurus declared.

Get this—MistTrack's on-chain intel shows the bad guys have already pilfered a hefty 9.3086 Bitcoin, raking in nearly a cool million bucks—that's about $989,383!

This shady wallet's been lurking around since April 22, 2016, and after a quiet spell, it sprang back into action on March 14, 2024, hooking up with several crypto exchanges.

How Does This Crazy Exploit Work?

These sneaky malware exploits, like the one MistTrack spotlighted, happen when attackers slip malicious code into programs you install on your devices—your laptop, your PC, your phone. Here, the crooks used a printer driver that looks legit but is anything but.

Once you've got this driver installed, it's watching your clipboard like a hawk, waiting for you to copy a crypto wallet address. When you do, thinking you're about to send some funds, the malware swoops in and swaps it out with the attacker's wallet address.

You go to paste what you think is your original address, but if you're not paying close attention, those funds are zipping right into the thief's pocket instead of where you intended.

Remember that other shocker from CyberArk back in March 2025? It was all about a malware called MassJacker, which also messed with your clipboard, redirecting your crypto to wallets controlled by attackers and emptying your account.

Unlike our printer driver fiasco, MassJacker used over 750,000 unique addresses, not just one recurring one. And get this—it got into your hardware through pirated and cracked software you might've downloaded from those shady sites.