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Bogus Trezor iOS App Snares Investor’s USD 1m Bitcoin Savings
31.3.2021
A bitcoin (BTC) investor who says he lost over BTC 17 (USD 0.99m) to scammers has hit out at Apple for hosting a fake app on its store that allowed criminals to make off with his “life savings.”
Speaking to the Washington Post, the investor, a Trezor wallet user named Phillipe Christodoulou...
iPhone user blames Apple for $600K Bitcoin theft via fake app
31.3.2021
Apple removed the fake Trezor app several times, but it kept appearing on the App Store days later
Youtuber Builds a Bitcoin Miner Out of a 31-year old Nintendo Game Boy
29.3.2021
On Saturday, a popular Youtuber named Stacksmashing published a video that shows him hacking a 1989 Nintendo Game Boy in order to mine bitcoin. Despite the creativity and the fact that the miner only leverages four double-A batteries, Stacksmashing noted that the 8-bit handheld game console was...
Supercharged Custody with a Trezor Hardware Wallet
3.3.2021
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As millions of people discover cryptocurrency for the first time, custody must be front-and-center. While some companies have chosen to sell crypto price-trackers rather than the underlying asset itself...
Trezor crypto wallet warns users of doppelgänger scam app on Google Play
19.1.2021
The fake Trezor app has been downloaded by at least 1,000 people on the Android’s app store Google Play
Trezor December Sales Were 'Off the Charts'
4.1.2021
Source: A screenshot, Instagram/trezor.io
SatoshiLabs, the maker of the Trezor hardware wallet, saw a major increase in the popular wallet's sales in the last month of 2020, and one of the reasons for the boost in numbers was their competitor Ledger's ongoing data breach incident, according to...
Ledger Scammers Reportedly Go Trans-Wallet & Target Trezor Users
14.12.2020
The Ledger hardware wallet phishing saga continues, but has now spread to competitors, with Trezor users reportedly becoming the scammers' targets as well.
"The Ledger leak phishers are now phishing for Trezor users," warned Jameson Lopp, Chief Technology Officer at US-based crypto...
Ledger Wallet Customer Data Leak Invokes Threats, Phishing Scams, User Allegedly Loses Life Savings
13.12.2020
The cryptocurrency hardware wallet firm Ledger was hacked last June and over a million emails were exposed, according to reports from the company at the time. Months later, the hackers who obtained the Ledger data emailed clients, sent texts to customers, and created phishing links for users...
Popular Browsers Like Google Fail to Catch Copycat Crypto Sites, Scams Make the Top Results
13.12.2020
As the digital asset economy grows popular and a number of crypto companies become well known, copycat scammers appear in greater numbers. There are a number of websites that are clones of the official web page from companies that provide mining device sales, wallets, full nodes, paper wallet...
The ‘Undo Button’ Wallet Tool Gives Users the Ability to Reverse Ethereum Transactions
12.11.2020
On Thursday, November 12, 2020, the blockchain firm Kirobo launched a tool that allows users to reverse ethereum transactions. Similarly to the replace-by-fee (RBF) protocol leveraged by bitcoin users, ethereum transactions can be reversed as well with Kirobo’s “Undo Button”...
Simple in practice: Crypto education is key to curbing phishing scams
11.11.2020
Even though wallet operators have a large role to play in protecting funds, customers also need to educate themselves to avoid phishing scams
Hash Watch: Bitcoin Cash Services Reveal Contingency Plans for Upcoming Fork
5.11.2020
The Bitcoin Cash blockchain is set to upgrade on Sunday, November 15 and it’s still expected that the network will bifurcate. So far, a number of crypto services have revealed contingency plans for the fork, and today’s data shows that 754 out of 1,000 bitcoin cash blocks were mined...
Trezor’s failure to support upcoming BCH fork comes under fire
5.11.2020
Trezor has announced it will wait to see the outcome of Bitcoin Cash’s Nov. 15 fork before pledging support for Bitcoin ABC or Bitcoin Cash Node
Trezor claims new “phishing proof” desktop wallet
14.10.2020
The desktop app reportedly provides “more robust protection” than Trezor’s browser-based wallet
It’s been 4 months & KeepKey’s hardware is still vulnerable to remote ransom attacks
3.9.2020
They are apparently working on other things that are of a higher priority
Wasabi Wallet Patches Flaw That Could Have Thwarted Bitcoin Privacy Feature
3.9.2020
The flaw’s discovery is an example of cooperation in the open-source community, where devs are constantly tinkering to improve their peers’ software
Trezor Fixes New Vulnerability, KeepKey Working On It; New Malware Targets Wallets
3.9.2020
Swiss hardware wallet provider Shift Crypto said it has disclosed a vulnerability in the Trezor and KeepKey hardware wallets that could allow for potential ransom attacks – while a potentially nasty new malware strain is threatening to cause widespread wallet theft if left unchecked.
The...
Hardware Wallet Flaw Lets Attackers Hold Crypto for Ransom Without Touching Device
2.9.2020
A hypothetical man-in-the-middle attack would have allowed an attacker to hold users’ crypto for ransom on Trezor and KeepKey hardware wallets
Dropbox získal novinky: trezor na soubory, něco jako zálohu PC a správce hesel
14.8.2020
Oblíbené cloudové úložiště naostro spouští některé novinky, které začalo před dvěma měsíci testovat. Uživatelé si tak mohou vyzkoušet funkci pro synchronizaci systémových složek počítače, správce hesel Dropbox Passwords nebo pinem chráněnou složku, k jejímuž obsahu se nikdo jiný
Trezor Takes a Shot at Ledger After the Hack
29.7.2020
Trezor appears to take a shot at the competition following Ledger’s recent data breach