Study of 85 Crypto Wallet Extensions Finds Address Leaks and Cross-Site Tracking Risks
KU Leuven researchers found that 85 popular crypto-wallet browser extensions leak enough metadata to de-anonymise and cross-site-track users — relevant for enterprises permitting browser extensions.
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Researchers at KU Leuven tested 85 of the most popular crypto wallets that run as browser extensions and found that the wallets themselves leak enough to link and track the people using them.
The way these wallets talk to websites and blockchain servers can tie a person's separate addresses together and let outsiders follow them from site to site. And on a site that already holds a name or
Editorial Analysis
Browser extensions with poor isolation can inadvertently expose user identity across sites, reinforcing the case for strict enterprise browser-extension allow-listing.
Audit and restrict browser extensions permitted on corporate endpoints, focusing on those that interact with external networks.
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