Top online animation tool LottieFiles hacked to target victims’ crypto wallets

A popular online animation tool was abused to trick people into handing over access to their cryptocurrency wallets, with at least one person losing almost $700,000.

LottieFiles is a platform that provides tools and a library for creating, editing and sharing lightweight, scalable animations in the Lottie format. These animations, along with the LottiePlayer plugin, are commonly used on websites and mobile applications with 94,000 weekly downloads and have been downloaded more than 4 million times since launch.