MediaMarkt pulled every Ledger wallet from its stores and online shop on October 13. The parent company, MediaMarktSaturn, confirmed the move after a customer reported hidden cellular modules in two Ledgers from separate stores. The MediaMarkt...
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Can Stolen Crypto Be Recovered? The Honest Answer
Can stolen crypto be recovered? It's the first question every victim asks, usually while staring at a wallet full of red withdrawal transactions. The honest answer: rarely, but not never. And the difference between "rarely" and "never" depends...
FomoPeek Warning: $580K Theft, Airdrops and Zcash News
We told you all summer: September was the time to lock in. We did. Robinhood Chain, airdrop farming, the Arc launch, and steadily DCAing into my ZEC, NEAR, and HYPE positions. Did you? Honestly, I haven't had this much fun being active in crypto...
Claude Trading Bot Scam: Fake YouTube Tutorials Drain $517K
A wave of fake YouTube tutorials promised viewers a Claude-powered crypto trading bot that prints money on autopilot. Instead of a bot, victims deployed a wallet drainer with their own hands. Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs traced the...
STM32 Entropy Vulnerability: The Fake Trezor Email You Need to Delete
Last night an email hit my inbox with the subject line "Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability." The sender read noreply@trezor.io, the real domain, and it sailed through every authentication check Gmail runs. According to the...
Liquid Network Hack: “Whitehats” Pull $320 Million in Bitcoin From Blockstream’s Sidechain
Bitcoin's oldest sidechain just watched 95% of its reserves walk out the door in a single transaction. On September 6, someone drained roughly 4,000 BTC, worth about $320 million, from the federation wallet backing Blockstream's Liquid Network. The...
Seed Phrase Passphrase Explained: The Cheapest Security Upgrade in Crypto
One extra word. That's the difference between the Coldcard victims who lost everything and the users who kept their Bitcoin. A seed phrase passphrase, sometimes called the 25th word, turned out to be the cheapest insurance policy in crypto history....
Warning: Fake AirdropAlert Clone Is Targeting “Ansem Coin Airdrop” Searches — ansemcoin.xyz Is a Wallet Drainer
People have been cloning AirdropAlert almost as long as we've existed. Fake domains, copied listings, lookalike Telegram channels — after nine years, spotting our own impersonators is practically a side business. But this week's find deserves a...
WLFI Zhou Investigation, Airdrop Updates, Robinhood NFTs & Thailand Goes Tax-Free
Happy Monday everyone. Hope you're having a great summer and enjoying some of our Sunday throwbacks once in a while. Yesterday, we went back to the early days and looked at how we tried to protect the definition of a crypto airdrop when the...
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