POPA ReconSpy Ledgers Have Now Turned Up in 6 Countries
Spy Ledgers Have Now Turned Up in 6 Countries Public teardown tracker by Mark Karpelès lists 12 Ledgers with a hidden LTE implant, bought everywhere from Lazada Thailand and Amazon Japan to Changi Airport. "The implant sits inside the enclosure and reads the data shown on the screen … It does not modify the Secure Element or the Ledger operating system," Ledger's Donjon team said. That is why a tampered device still passes Genuine Check. CryptoBilis buyers in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines lost ~$102M, per Bitquery. Ledger has not confirmed a total, but on October 13 it halted sale…
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