#cryptocurrency
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OkoBot Malware Hijacks Ledger and Trezor Apps to Steal Crypto Recovery Phrases
A Windows malware framework active since April 2025 waits for victims to open their hardware wallet software, then fakes a prompt for the seed words that unlock everything.
Fake GitHub Pages Impersonate 292 Real Brands to Push Password-Stealing Malware
A Russian-speaking crew built hundreds of lookalike project pages for security tools, wallets and dev software. One click on 'Download Secure Content' handed over browser passwords, crypto wallets and chat sessions.
KU Leuven Researchers Find 85 Browser Crypto Wallets Leak User Data
Academic study says the way popular wallet extensions talk to websites lets outsiders link separate crypto addresses to the same person.
Attackers Hijacked Injective Labs' GitHub to Slip Wallet-Stealing Code Into npm
A tampered @injectivelabs/sdk-ts release quietly siphoned crypto wallet keys and seed phrases from developers who installed it.
Bulgarian money launderer accused of siphoning $290,000 in seized crypto from behind bars
Rossen Iossifov, already serving ten years for laundering funds for a Romanian online auction fraud ring, allegedly moved government-seized cryptocurrency through mixers while in a US prison.
Laser Pulse Cracks Tangem Crypto Card Password in Seconds
Ledger's Donjon team showed a targeted laser can wipe the PIN on a Tangem wallet card, handing full control to whoever holds it.
'Ill Bloom' Wallet Flaw Drains $3.1 Million as Weak Recovery Phrases Give Thieves the Keys
Security firm Coinspect says attackers are already sweeping wallets whose recovery words were generated with predictable randomness.
Poisoned Injective SDK on npm quietly stole crypto wallet keys for hours
A hijacked contributor account on GitHub pushed a booby-trapped version of a popular blockchain toolkit, siphoning seed phrases from any developer who ran the wrong function.
Interpol Sweep Nets 5,811 Fraud Arrests and $293 Million Across 97 Countries
Operation First Light 2026 identified more than 142,000 victims of romance, investment and business email scams between January and April.
Farage's £5m Crypto Gift Was Flagged to the UK's National Crime Agency Over Money-Laundering Fears
Bankers who processed the payment raised a formal suspicion report. Now the Reform UK leader faces scrutiny from two directions at once.
Hackers Are Hiding Instructions Inside Websites to Make AI Assistants Send Crypto Payments
Two newly discovered attack campaigns show how criminals can secretly hijack AI browsing agents by planting hidden commands in ordinary-looking web pages.
Clipper Crew Buys Sponsored Posts on News Sites to Push Trojanized Crypto Tools
An untracked actor is laundering credibility through paid press placements, a phishing-grade WordPress hub, and seeded GitHub and SourceForge repos to deliver clipboard hijackers.