Weekly Safety Review
A weekly roundup of the 10–15 most important wallet security incidents — phishing, drainers, fake apps, key compromises and social engineering — with source-backed summaries and brief commentary.
8 articles
2026-10-12Wallet Safety Weekly Review — October 5–11, 2026A curated review of the 10 most important wallet security stories for October 5–11, 2026: Ledger confirming a hardware implant inside a reseller-sold device as drains are estimated at $72M–$94.5M, a five-year-old MakerDAO keeper auction drained of 200 ETH, a trader's $4M wallet sweep at TOKEN2049, the U.S. government moving over $1B of forfeited bitcoin, and the week the supply chain — not the cryptography — turned out to be the weakest link.2026-10-05Wallet Safety Weekly Review — September 28–October 4, 2026A curated review of the 10 most important wallet security stories for September 28–October 4, 2026: MetaMask exiting 17,000 validators over 0.36 ETH of diverted rewards, Gravity Bridge drained of $5.4M through its signing keys, a $3.865M exploit at NEAR Intents returned in full within a day, Bitget naming a third-party zero-day as the breach vector, and the week the defensive machinery — for once — outperformed the attackers.2026-09-28Wallet Safety Weekly Review — September 21–27, 2026A curated review of the 10 most important wallet security stories for September 21–27, 2026: a backend compromise that moved $387.5M out of Bitget's hot and warm wallets, a day on which three platforms lost $11M, a $20,199 governance proposal that took over two protocols on Neutron, a cross-chain key leak that drained 145 addresses, and the week the market absorbed all of it anyway.2026-09-21Wallet Safety Weekly Review — September 14–20, 2026A curated review of the 10 most important wallet security stories for September 14–20, 2026: an app wallet signing flaw that swept 1,552 XRP Ledger wallets, a $7.8M Safe-wallet drain that a bot front-ran, a stolen bridge key that minted 2.3 billion AI tokens, a ransom demand aimed at Revolut's customer files, and the advisory that names the recruiters stealing seed phrases.2026-09-14Wallet Safety Weekly Review — September 7–13, 2026A curated review of the 10 most important wallet security stories for September 7–13, 2026: 3,400 BTC returned to the Liquid federation, a $24B laundering marketplace struck by US enforcement, two more bitcoin-wrapper unbackings at Nomic and Symbiosis, a UBI protocol's reserves drained, and an old Balancer deadline that lapsed quietly.2026-09-07Wallet Safety Weekly Review — August 31 – September 6, 2026A curated review of the 12 most important wallet security stories for August 31 – September 6, 2026: a $320M settlement-layer withdrawal, the Coldcard attacker moving funds again, a $1.73M legacy-contract overflow, a hardware-wallet shipping breach tripling in size, a cross-border drainer ring dismantled, and a clipboard-hijacking botnet taken down.2026-08-31Wallet Safety Weekly Review — August 24–30, 2026A curated review of the 12 most important wallet security stories for August 24–30, 2026: an entropy crisis worth $5.69M, the Inferno drainer network attributed, a $9.4M TRON poisoning tally, a Solana neobank breach and refund pledge, and AI-found bugs forcing emergency lockdowns.2026-08-24Wallet Safety Weekly Review — August 17–23, 2026A curated review of the 10 most important wallet security stories for August 17–23, 2026: a governance-keyed vault drain, a cross-chain bridge exploit, address poisoning on TRON, the Inferno drainer-as-a-service investigation, and the operational habits that would have stopped each loss.