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Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

356 points • by thm • yesterday at 10:09 AM • 289 comments • view on HN

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Crypto-thieves-sell-hardware-wa...

https://crypto.news/ledger-confirms-hidden-chip-in-crypto-wa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JnHdr30v4g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4FEFlgv3Q

https://www.tibane.net/research/ledger-nano-x-implant


Comments

knorker • today at 10:06 AM

If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

Dogs = cryptocurrencies. Fleas = scammed.

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Cytobit • yesterday at 10:31 AM

What is the use case of a hardware cryptocurrency wallet besides trapping bitcoins in the Shadow Realm?

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Oh-Kay_Labs • today at 11:42 AM

Oh-Kay_Labs have said it for years. Not only hackers and thieves go for them, but also kidnappers and robbers. If anyone knows you have one, and things could be much worse. Use paper-wallets, old phones and encrypted USBs instead.

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birdsongs • today at 10:09 AM

Garbage website that doesn't allow me to reject tracking cookies without paying.

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> Consent [required for free use]

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x1watt • today at 9:43 PM

This whole operation smells Israeli from the beginning to the end. First are these USB ledgers with modified hardware (guess who likes to do that on pagers and similar), then this happens in Germany, the country that never says "no" to the same specific group of people and finally they try exfiltrate the stolen funds with the favorite "private" coin of the same group of people, which in end is (again) proven to NOT be private at all.https://x.com/YFarmX/status/2108918564015006200

HN will never permit to look into the origin of this criminal action and normies will not even put that possibility on the table because they've been programmed against it. Let's play a game, this is a serious criminal act. I bet this will be quickly forgoten in about 3 weeks without anyone in Germany pointing fingers to the guilty party.

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