Phishing
Articles tagged Phishing
2026-10-09How to Spot a Fake Wallet App Before It Sees Your KeysA verification walkthrough for wallet software: why official app stores still ship counterfeit wallets, the April Ledger case that cost one musician 5.9 BTC, the fake-update route that delivered counterfeit Ledger apps and NetSupport RAT, the listing checks and the one setup question that expose most fakes, the TRON test transfer that proves an install cheaply, and the recovery path if a seed phrase was already entered.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.2026-10-05Weekly Wallet Security Data Report — September 28–October 4, 2026The numbers for September 28–October 4, 2026: roughly $9.6M in gross direct losses across four quantified incidents — about 2.3% of the prior week's total — one full recovery of $3.865M inside 24 hours, and the cheapest week this ledger has printed since the week of September 7–13.2026-10-05Weekly Safety Intelligence — Week of September 28–October 4, 2026Our five standing intelligence questions for September 28–October 4, 2026, answered: a week in which losses collapsed to ~$9.6M, a full recovery landed inside 24 hours, a $1.4B defensive withdrawal contained an infrastructure breach to 0.36 ETH, and the regulator's custody proposal read like the incident ledger converted into rule text.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.2026-09-28Weekly Wallet Security Data Report — September 21–27, 2026The numbers for September 21–27, 2026: roughly $412.3M in gross direct losses across eight quantified incidents — about $24.8M excluding the Bitget breach — one coordinated validator sweep that contained $2.2M, and a month that closed as the costliest of 2026.2026-09-28Weekly Safety Intelligence — Week of September 21–27, 2026Our five standing intelligence questions for September 21–27, 2026, answered: a week in which $412.3M left wallets and exchanges through systems that authorized correctly, a $20,199 governance vote took over two protocols, the costliest month of 2026 closed, and the effective defense shifted from key hygiene to the trust boundary itself.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.2026-09-21Weekly Wallet Security Data Report — September 14–20, 2026The numbers for September 14–20, 2026: roughly $20.9M in confirmed direct losses across nine quantified incidents, a week with no in-window recoveries, and a loss profile where every dollar traces to keys, authorization checks or oracle inputs rather than to code on a chain.2026-09-21Weekly Safety Intelligence — Week of September 14–20, 2026Our five standing intelligence questions for September 14–20, 2026, answered: a week in which $20.9M left wallets through valid signatures, an app wallet's signing flaw swept 1,552 XRP Ledger wallets, seven agencies named the recruiters stealing seed phrases, and the effective defense moved from protocol audits to key and module hygiene.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.2026-09-07Wallet Safety Intelligence — Week of August 31 – September 6, 2026The five fixed questions for the week of August 31 – September 6, 2026: risk migrating to the layers around the key, a $320M settlement-layer withdrawal, social engineering that borrows trusted identities, the operations that matter now, and what to watch in September.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.2026-08-25Inside Drainer-as-a-Service: What the $550,000 Hyperliquid Phishing Case Teaches Every Wallet UserA structured teardown of the August 2026 fake-Hyperliquid phishing theft: how a rented Inferno-class drainer kit, a paid Google ad and one approval signature turned $550,000 of USDC into an 80/15/5 revenue split — and the defense stack that beats it.2026-08-25Wallet Safety Weekly Update — August 17–23, 2026The weekly market-side numbers for wallet safety: TRON energy rental and USDT transfer costs, the poisoning run rate, drainer-infrastructure activity, and what moved in the defense market this week.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.2026-08-24Wallet Safety Intelligence — Week of August 17–23, 2026The five fixed questions for the week of August 17–23, 2026: threat posture, realized losses, new scam mechanics, the operations that matter now, and what to watch next week.