Kim Zetter personal blog

Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?

by @KimZetter zetter-zeroday.com published 2026-10-1316 min read

The theft last week of an estimated $100 million in crypto using a hardware backdoor planted in Ledger wallets points to a sophisticated and systematic attack aimed at subverting crypto wallets sold by legitimate resellers in Asia and Europe

Points

130

HN comments

159

Submissions

1

Cited by

0 commenters

Security & PrivacyCrypto & Blockchain2026

Related posts from the same era

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

Thereallo20262,445 points750 commentscited by 3 details

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

Motorola News20262,358 points884 commentscited by 10 details

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

SSid20262,210 points491 commentscited by 3 details

Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

Tim Shmykov20251,957 points600 commentscited by 3 details

Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

StepSecurity Blog20261,934 points807 comments details

Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

AdGuard DNS Blog20251,816 points443 comments details