Ledger appointed Oded Blatman as its combined chief information officer and chief security officer on September 9, 2026, merging technology and security oversight as AI-powered crypto attacks drain $1…
Ledger, the Paris-based hardware wallet maker, appointed Oded Blatman as both chief information officer and chief security officer on September 9, 2026, consolidating cyber, product, and physical secu…
Ledger has appointed Oded Blatman, former CIO and CISO of Fireblocks, as its new chief information officer and chief security officer, a role that consolidates security and technology leadership. Blat…
Ledger's security research arm Donjon discovered a laser fault-injection vulnerability in the TROPIC01 chip used in Trezor's Safe 7 wallet, disclosed it responsibly, and both companies are urging indu…
Sparrow Wallet released version 2.5.4 on August 27 after an AI-assisted security review found no fund-threatening vulnerabilities, patching DNS leaks over Tor, hardening hardware wallet integrations, …
Sparrow Wallet released version 2.5.4 on Thursday after an AI-assisted code review that produced most of the update's fixes, developer Craig Raw told Decrypt. The review was prompted by the release of…
NEAR Protocol activated post-quantum signing support on its mainnet on July 20, 2026, becoming one of the first major blockchains to ship a production-ready quantum-resistant signature scheme. The upg…
NEAR Foundation, through Near One, has begun rebuilding its security model for post-quantum computing, starting with the integration of ML-DSA (Dilithium) into the protocol in Q2 2026, according to CT…
Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet explained that Bitcoin and Ethereum are gravitating toward NIST's SLH-DSA (Sphincs+) post-quantum signature standard over the lattice-based ML-DSA (CRYSTALS-Dilithium) fav…
Rapid7 Labs uncovered Operation ASTERIX, a crypto fraud pipeline that used AI coding assistants to create fake Ledger, Trezor, and Exodus apps, and matched 43,066 phone numbers to actual exchange acco…
Rapid7's Operation ASTERIX uncovered a crypto phishing campaign that used AI coding tools, including GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, to build counterfeit Trezor, Ledger, and Exodus wallet apps and val…
Rapid7 Labs uncovered Operation ASTERIX, a crypto fraud scheme that used AI-powered phishing tools, fake Trezor and Ledger apps, and vishing calls to steal wallet recovery phrases, exposing 885,000 ph…
Rapid7 researchers uncovered Operation ASTERIX, an active cryptocurrency phishing campaign that used AI coding assistants to develop phishing panels, fake wallet apps, and vishing infrastructure, expo…
A coalition of cryptocurrency companies, led by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, urged frontier AI labs to grant Bitcoin developers early access to their most capable models, citing that defenders of ope…
Bitcoin bridge Boltz suspended its swap service indefinitely on August 3, 2026, citing a surge in AI-assisted attacks that outpaced its ability to patch vulnerabilities. The non-custodial platform, wh…
Coinkite disclosed on July 30, 2026, that a 2021 integration change in its COLDCARD hardware wallet sent seed generation down a MicroPython software fallback instead of the intended hardware random-nu…
Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet said the Coldcard exploit, which has led to roughly $130 million in losses, underscores the need for hardware Bitcoin wallets to use independently certified hardware rando…
Freedom Factory announced the PQ1, a $179 quantum-resistant hardware wallet for Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains, on July 28, with shipping expected in Q4 2026. The device uses the NIST-recognized S…
Ledger unveiled the Ledger Agent Stack on June 10, 2026, an open-source toolkit requiring physical confirmation on a hardware device before AI agents can move funds, keeping humans in the loop. The st…
MoonPay has integrated its AI-powered crypto agents into Telegram, enabling over 100 million users to fund wallets, swap tokens, and execute on-chain trades directly within the messaging app. The move…