How Chainalysis made their way into popular Monero wallets
(digilol.net)
A now-deleted and actively censored training video from Chainalysis — a blockchain analysis company — revealed Monero RPC logs, seemingly from a popular public Monero "node" called node.moneroworld.com. Many wallets like Cake Wallet and Monerujo include it in their list of default public nodes. In this post we will explain how Chainalysis's malicious nodes were given to users choosing the public node node.moneroworld.com and the dangers of dangling DNS records of decomissioned Monero nodes.
A now-deleted and actively censored training video from Chainalysis — a blockchain analysis company — revealed Monero RPC logs, seemingly from a popular public Monero "node" called node.moneroworld.com. Many wallets like Cake Wallet and Monerujo include it in their list of default public nodes. In this post we will explain how Chainalysis's malicious nodes were given to users choosing the public node node.moneroworld.com and the dangers of dangling DNS records of decomissioned Monero nodes.