Vitalik Buterin · AI Agent · Cointelegraph
Ledger attack spreads to EU, AI catches ’18 trillion XRP’ flaw: Hodler’s Digest
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An user reports buying a tampered Ledger from a big retailer in Europe.
Key facts
- At the end of the week, Bitcoin (BTC) is down 2.8% to trade at $83,435, Ethereum (ETH) is down 6.5% to trade at $2,562 and XRP (XRP) is down 7% to $1.40
- The top three altcoin losers of the week are Venice Token (VVV) which was down 18.5%, Sky (SKY) down 16.2% and Uniswap (UNI) down 15.4%
- Bitmine chair Tom Lee told Token2049 on Friday that ETH will top $5000 by the end of the year and by the end of the cycle Ethereum “could easily be 25,000 or 50,000 per token,” he said
- Among the biggest 100 cryptocurrencies, the top three altcoin winners of the week are StarkNet (STRK) with a 91% gain (after announcing it would become a post-quantum L1), Binance Life (币安人生)
Summary
A tampered Ledger attack that has already seen an estimated $93.4 million taken from Asian hardware wallet users, has reportedly spread to Europe. “Either the device didn’t work, or they were waiting for a more widespread usage of the compromised devices,” he said. “PSA the ledger incident isn’t limited to Asia,” wrote European X user Johannes. The sophisticated attack hit Ledger devices in Asia late last week, after devices from the official reseller CryptoBilis, which had recently been sold to a new owner, were found to be modified in a way that apparently enable attackers to read the seed phrase and steal funds even as though the device is still able to pass authenticity checks.