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...
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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...
Fake XRP Airdrops: Scammers Target the XRP Community Again
Airdrops are getting more traction again. The bear market might be coming to an end soon, retail is showing a slight bump in interest for crypto, and what happens then? Scammers come back. Right on cue, the XRP community is dealing with a wave of...
Coldcard Hackers Send Millions to Crypto Mixers as Losses Climb Toward $130 Million
The Coldcard hackers are cashing out. One week after the biggest hardware wallet exploit in crypto history, the stolen coins have started moving. Roughly 64 BTC, worth $4.17 million, and 200 ETH, worth around $380,000, flowed into cryptocurrency...
Coldcard Wallet Hack: $38 Million Drained Without Touching a Single Device
For years, the crypto community repeated the same advice like a mantra: get a hardware wallet, keep your keys offline, and nobody can touch your coins. This week, that advice took a serious hit. The Coldcard wallet hack drained roughly 594 BTC,...
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