Ledger spyware scare spreads beyond Southeast Asia

What happened

More examples of Ledger wallets being tampered with and fitted with physical spyware (software that secretly watches what a device is used for) have allegedly been identified across Asia, Europe, and South America. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès discovered that spyware implanted in some Ledger devices was being used to read their screen output.

Gox CEO Mark Karpelès has been identifying spyware in Ledger wallets bought from resellers in Europe, South America, and Asia. The post Ledger spyware scare spreads beyond Southeast Asia appeared first on Protos .

Ledger users who bought hardware wallets from Malaysia-based reseller CryptoBilis were drained of over $86 million last week. It could record any seed phrase while remaining undetected by Ledger’s Genuine Check security protocol.