The Ledger Hack Postmortem: What Broke, What Didn't, and What's Still Open
The Ledger implant hack stands at $102M from 335 wallets, two weeks on, zero arrests. Recap: the numbers, the device, the money trail, what to check now.
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A Sui Bridge Claim Bot Just Paid the Cetus Hacker — 17 Months After the Freeze
A rescue bot finalized the Cetus hacker's 17-month-old bridge claims and paid out $392K. Why dormant bridge claims are live liabilities for every chain.
Best Ways to Verify Token Addresses: 6 Checks That Hold Up Against Real Scams
Six ways to verify a token address before you buy: official-source cross-checks, explorer verification, scam scanners, and how scammers fake each signal.
Fake Crypto Exchange Scams: Why the Balance Grows but the Withdrawal Never Comes
The dashboard shows profit, the withdrawal is frozen, and support wants a fee. How fake crypto exchanges work, the deposit-address test that exposes them, and what to do now.
The Task Scammer Who Lost 60 BTC to a Tampered Ledger Wallet
A task-scam operator kept 60 BTC of stolen proceeds in tampered Ledger wallets — drained in a single morning. A rare look at scammers getting scammed.
Denmark CPR Breach: 8.8M Identities Sat Behind a '123456' Password
Millions of citizen records with trivially weak passwords — and crypto accounts in the blast radius. What the breach exposed and what to do now.
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