Changing BTC address script.

[Aqu4]

How does this work?

 

I see a lot of people on this forum falling victim to a scam where they install a script into greasemonkey and then all future bitcoin address's get changed to one owned by the scammer. Even if they remove/disable the script.

 

I tried reading the code but it gave me no clues.

 

I'm wondering how this works and where i can learn about it? I love crypto and had heard of this attack before but never actually seen it in the wild until coming here.

 

How can i recreate something like that with python so i can learn more?

[Metamine]

So I can "Learn More"  

[Aqu4]

So I can "Learn More"

 

I just started learning python so the more projects i can learn about the better.

[tvwareiptv]

I am assuming everything never tried it but from a coder point of view,

1. changing the btc address to another one, this can be accomplished with a regex or something to detected if you wrote down a btc address and if it matches it will just replace it, this could also probably be called while pasting and the end user would never even see the address being changed.

2. keeping it after deleting, probably some caching thing.

[MiggieSmallz]

appreciate this brother!