- A dusting attack refers to a relatively new kind of malicious activity where hackers and scammers try
and break the privacy of Bitcoin users by sending tiny amounts of coins to their personal wallets.
- The transactional activity of these wallets is then tracked down by the attackers, who perform a
combined analysis of several addresses as an attempt to identify the person or company behind
each wallet.
3.No, The best way to protect against such activity is to use the strategy advised by Samurai Wallet,
which provided the users with a “do not spend” feature. This allows the user to mark small, unknown
deposits in their wallet in order to never use this UTXO for further transactions.
Dusting attacks are mainly targeted at private wallet holders. Therefore, it’s essential to keep track of
incoming funds, and it’s always a good idea to use a wallet address only once, which provides further
protection. Other measures may include installing a
private network, or VPN, along with a trustworthy antivirus on all of the devices that are used to
access crypto, as well as encrypting wallets and storing keys inside encrypted folders.
4.The Samurai Wallet for example, has a “Do not spend” feature. This allows the user to mark
unknown small deposits on his wallet in order to never use this UTXO for further transactions.This
feature is a reaction of the developers of the Samurai Wallet, who already noticed at the end of
October 2018 that many users of their Wallet had become victims of such Dusting attacks.