How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device. Continue reading How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

Trezor’s Twitter account hijacked by cryptocurrency scammers via bogus Calendly invite

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor has explained how its Twitter account was compromised – despite it having sensible security precautions in place, such as strong passwords and multi-factor authentication.

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Trezor Data Breach Exposes Email and Names of 66,000 Users

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The latest Trezor data breach places users at risk of phishing scams, potentially leading to the theft of additional login credentials.
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Trezor crypto wallets under attack in SMS phishing campaign

Willie Sutton, the criminal who became legendary for stealing from banks during a forty year career, was once asked, “Why do you keep robbing banks?”

His answer? “Because that’s where the money is.”

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Smashing Security podcast #269: Trezor Deep Throat, a CCTV stalker, and Amazon’s list of banned words

There’s monkey business involving cryptocurrency thieves and MailChimp, a stalker exploits his ex-partner’s CCTV cameras, and what are the naughty words Amazon doesn’t want its staff using?

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Hackaday Links: January 30, 2022

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After all the fuss and bother along the way, it seems a bit anticlimactic now that the James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its forever home orbiting around L2. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 30, 2022

Hacking Hardware Bitcoin Wallets: Extracting The Cryptographic Seed From a Trezor

It’s long been common wisdom that one of the safest places to keep your cryptocurrency holdings is in a hardware wallet. These are small, portable devices that encrypt your keys and offer a bit more piece of mind than holding …read more

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49 malicious Chrome extensions caught pickpocketing crypto wallets

They were posing as crypto wallets in order to rip off users’ private keys and mnemonic phrases and drain real wallets. Google’s yanked them. Continue reading 49 malicious Chrome extensions caught pickpocketing crypto wallets