[Omniscient]

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blo...EASE-NOTES

If you use Electrum wallet you should update. It always concerns me when release notes says things like, " This release contains important security fixes. Details will be disclosed later."

So yeah, go update your Electrum wallet asap.

We'll see what the disclosure is later but take no chances.

[SUI-3183372]

At this point I'm just going to uninstall.

[Mewtwo]

At this point I'm just going to uninstall.

You’d be surprised bro. EU forces their people to give up the XPUB and sign a message. Not many apps or softwares give this option.

[Three]

Someone started a thread on Bitcointalk; since I don't believe in coincidences at all, perhaps this is the undisclosed security vulnerability.

I wanted to post this issue in the technical board where it fits most but had to bring it to the B&H for more exposure.

Am sharing an experience I had with my electrum wallet transaction from electrum to my bybit account, it's an experience that is really surprising to me because I have never had such issues in the years I have being using electrum wallet.

On the 13th August, 2026, I made a transaction of a little amount of BTC and as usual I went straight to my bybit account, copied the BTC address I have always being using, and then pasted it to my electrum wallet I was sending the BTC from, I confirmed it was the right address, and that was how I initiated the transaction.

I waited for hours I did not receive the BTC into my bybit account, so I had to check my wallet to know if the transaction has being confirmed or not, on checking I found it has not yet due to low fees and that was how I decided to bump the transaction by increasing the fees. After the rebroadcast of the transaction I waited for another hours again and still didn't get any notification from bybit account of a received transaction but it showing transaction confirmation on the electrum wallet which indicates that the funds has being sent. That was when I decided to track the transaction and I discovered it was received into a whole different Segwit BTC address instead of the BTC native address I vividly copied from bybit and even confirmed the address before.continuing the transaction in my electrum wallet.

Bybit don't make use of Segwit BTC address so how could it be that on bumping the fees the coins was rather sent to an entirely new unknown address to me, and it actually the first transaction that the unknown address is receiving. Am dead sure I did not copy any address again while making the rebroadcast of the transaction,, so it can't be that it's a clipboard virus issue. And this isn't the first time am bumping my transaction fees and never had such experience with electrum wallet. What could have really caused such error?

Mind you: the first transaction which I sent that was delay due to low fee was directed to the Bybit address and it’s still very visible in the blockchain so it’s not a matter of the mistake being from the first time i authorized the transaction.

[Beherit]

Thank you for the PSA.

[badbart]

Nothing to lose to take heed those security updates.

[bebonzy09]

Don't tell me its some fucking exploit or entropy shit... at this point i'm getting so fed up with crypto. Every day its something new, seems like its safer to just buy into the ETFs.