Following the discovery of a serious Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in a prior version of the iOS app, blockchain security company Certik has advised users of OKX Wallet to update.The prior version could “potentially compromise sensitive data and crypto assets,” according to Certik’s post on X.
It added that OKX “responded swiftly and issued an updated version today.”
It’s unknown if any money was taken from users of OKX wallets.CoinDesk reached out to OKX for comment, but they did not get back to us right away.
Hackers have been targeting cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges more and more in recent months; in November, Poloniex lost $114 million in theft, and then HTX and cross-chain bridge Heco suffered a $100 million theft.Users of Atomic wallets lost $35 million in ether (ETH), bitcoin (BTC), and other tokens in June as a result of updating to a new version of the iOS app.