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Morning Edition · Monday, August 3, 2026Published at 1:38 AM EDT · New York
Researchers Show Wallet Transaction-Simulation Previews Can Be Spoofed to Phish Crypto Users
The safety feature that lets wallets like MetaMask preview a transaction's effect becomes an attack surface when the preview can be manipulated to differ from what executes.
Leading crypto wallets added transaction simulation to protect users, previewing the balance changes a transaction will cause before it is signed so that a victim can spot a drain before approving it. A paper on arXiv documents a class of a…
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