🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Ledger attack spreads to EU, AI finds ’18 trillion XRP’ bug: Hodler’s Digest
A user reports buying a tampered Ledger from a big retailer in Europe. Security researchers use AI to uncover a “$94 billion” XRP bug — but receive just a $250K bounty.
A tampered Ledger attack that has already seen an estimated $93.4 million taken from Asian hardware wallet users has reportedly spread to Europe. X user Johannes has presented photographs of a tampered Ledger he said he purchased two weeks ago from the European consumer electronics chain MediaMarkt. The implant inside appears to be an earlier version of the one found in devices shipped to Asia by CryptoBilis, and no funds have been taken.
“Either the device didn’t work, or they were waiting for more widespread use of the compromised devices,” he said. Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles, whose investigations into the tampered Asian Ledgers helped bring the problem to light, said the antenna in the device identifies it as the “Eurasian version,” suggesting separate versions of the implant have been sent to regions that use different mobile frequencies. Ledger has not confirmed that the reported European device is part of the same attack.
The sophisticated attack hit Ledger devices in Asia late last week, after devices from the official reseller CryptoBilis — which had recently been sold to a new owner — were found to have been modified in a way that apparently enabled attackers to read the seed phrase and steal funds, even though the devices could still pass authenticity checks.
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A user reports buying a tampered Ledger from a big retailer in Europe. Security researchers use AI to uncover a “$94 billion” XRP bug — but receive just a $250K bounty.
A tampered Ledger attack that has already seen an estimated $93.4 million taken from Asian hardware wallet users has reportedly spread to Europe. X user Johannes has presented photographs of a tampered Ledger he said he purchased two weeks ago from the European consumer electronics chain MediaMarkt. The implant inside appears to be an earlier version of the one found in devices shipped to Asia by CryptoBilis, and no funds have been taken.
“Either the device didn’t work, or they were waiting for more widespread use of the compromised devices,” he said. Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles, whose investigations into the tampered Asian Ledgers helped bring the problem to light, said the antenna in the device identifies it as the “Eurasian version,” suggesting separate versions of the implant have been sent to regions that use different mobile frequencies. Ledger has not confirmed that the reported European device is part of the same attack.
The sophisticated attack hit Ledger devices in Asia late last week, after devices from the official reseller CryptoBilis — which had recently been sold to a new owner — were found to have been modified in a way that apparently enabled attackers to read the seed phrase and steal funds, even though the devices could still pass authenticity checks.
🔗 [Read the full article in the original](https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/ledger-attack-spreads-to-eu-ai-finds-18-trillion-xrp-bug-hodlers-digest?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound)
📰 Source: 🪙 CoinTelegraph
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