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Attacker gets away with up to $3 billion from Binance
(www.citationneeded.news)
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You hear about the hardware crypto wallets with sim cards in them that read the pincode off the displays? That was a slick as shit supply chain attack:
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1009294/ledger-wallet-tampering-suspected-after-reports-of-crypto-thefts
The intial wallets discovered has crude wiring soldiered on, but later ones had custom black PCBs that looked very much like they were part of the wallets circuitry unless you knew exactly what you were looking for.
I really miss the old internet before paywalls were put up everywhere.
"Ledger is currently investigating serious allegations of tampering involving its hardware wallets sold through a Southeast Asian reseller, CryptoBilis. Reports indicate that this tampering has resulted in the theft of approximately $86 to $93 million in cryptocurrency from numerous wallets." https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/10/09/ledger-investigates-potential-wallet-tampering-after-reports-of-usd86-million-in-crypto-stolen