Eric Van Der Hope

I help writers, authors, experts & coaches self-publish their books professionally.

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[Ledger @Ledger]

We are 100% focused on following up to last week’s security incident, making sure incidents like this are prevented in the future, and that the ecosystem remains safe.

We are aware of approximately $600k in assets impacted, stolen from users blind signing on EVM DApps.

Ledger will make sure victims affected will be made whole, and are committing to work with the DApp ecosystem to allow Clear Signing, and no longer allow Blind Signing with Ledger devices by June 2024.

Read more:

We affirm our CEO & Chairman @_pgauthier’s promise https://t.co/6ScBNshwvV to make sure victims who had their assets stolen on Dec 14th, 2023 by the attacker together with angel drainer are made whole, including users who are not Ledger customers.

We commit, by any way possible, including gestures of goodwill, to make sure this is done by the end of February, 2024. We are already in contact with many impacted users and are actively working through the specifics with them.

We remind users that if you signed a transaction on affected DApps Dec 14th, 2023, best security practices would recommend revoking any authorized transactions to further reduce impact from the malicious code.

We are announcing that by June 2024, users will no longer be able to Blind Sign with Ledger devices. Our commitment is to work with the community and DApp ecosystem to allow Clear Signing so users can verify all transactions on Ledger devices before signing. This will lead to a new standard to protect users and encourage Clear Signing across DApps.

Front-end attacks have happened many times before and will continue to plague our ecosystem. The only foolproof countermeasure for this type of attack is to always verify what you consent to on your device.

This is only possible with Clear Signing: meaning you can see and verify exactly what you sign on a secure display.

If the ecosystem continues to allow Blind Signing, users remain at risk.

We ask DApp developers to support the Clear Signing security brick. Please reach out to us through our Developer portal (https://t.co/KGfFIuQFAs) or Discord (https://t.co/wAsoun1Xlh) so we can work together to add Clear Signing to your DApp.

We have detailed the cause of this hack and our security team’s response to this in a Ledger Connect Kit Incident Report on our Ledger tech and security blog:

https://t.co/pqrhAxGl28

We remind you your Ledger devices and Ledger Live have always been secure to use, and were not made vulnerable by this exploit.

If you believe you may have been affected by the attack, please reach out via our Ledger Help Center to find out more:

https://t.co/g4YV2inCDL

Thank you again, stay safe and Happy Holidays.

[Ledger @Ledger]

@Ledger_Support Remember:

1. NEVER ever share your 24-word Secret Recover Phrase with anyone

2. Anyone who asks for it is a criminal

[Ledger @Ledger]

FINAL TIMELINE AND UPDATE TO CUSTOMERS:

4:49pm CET:

Ledger Connect Kit genuine version 1.1.8 is being propagated now automatically. We recommend waiting 24 hours until using the Ledger Connect Kit again.

The investigation continues, here is the timeline of what we know about the exploit at this moment:

- This morning CET, a former Ledger Employee fell victim to a phishing attack that gained access to their NPMJS account.
- The attacker published a malicious version of the Ledger Connect Kit (affecting versions 1.1.5, 1.1.6, and 1.1.7). The malicious code used a rogue WalletConnect project to reroute funds to a hacker wallet.
- Ledger’s technology and security teams were alerted and a fix was deployed within 40 minutes of Ledger becoming aware. The malicious file was live for around 5 hours, however we believe the window where funds were drained was limited to a period of less than two hours.
- Ledger coordinated with @WalletConnect who quickly disabled the the rogue project.
- The genuine and verified Ledger Connect Kit version 1.1.8 is now propagating and is safe to use.
- For builders who are developing and interacting with the Ledger Connect Kit code: connect-kit development team on the NPM project are now read-only and can’t directly push the NPM package for safety reasons.
- We have internally rotated the secrets to publish on Ledger’s GitHub.
- Developers, please check again that you’re using the latest version, 1.1.8.
- Ledger, along with @Walletconnect and our partners, have reported the bad actor’s wallet address. The address is now visible on @chainalysis. @tether has frozen the bad actor’s USDT.
- We remind you to always Clear Sign with your Ledger. What you see on the Ledger screen is what you actually sign. If you still need to blind sign, use an additional Ledger mint wallet or parse your transaction manually.
- We are actively talking with customers whose funds might have been affected, and working proactively to help those individuals at this time.
- We are filing a complaint and working with law enforcement on the investigation to find the attacker.
- We’re studying the exploit in order to avoid further attacks. We believe the attacker’s address where the funds were drained is here: 0x658729879fca881d9526480b82ae00efc54b5c2d

Thank you to @WalletConnect, @Tether_io, @Chainalysis, @zachxbt, and the whole community that helped us and continue to help us identify and solve this attack.

Security will always prevail with the help of the whole ecosystem.

[Ledger @Ledger]

A message from our CEO @_pgauthier regarding the Ledger Connect Kit exploit: https://t.co/mqlTQOUwD5

[Ledger @Ledger]

UPDATE: The genuine Ledger Connect Kit 1.1.8 is now fully propagated. Ledger and WalletConnect can confirm that the malicious code was deactivated. You are now safe to use your Ledger Connect Kit. Reminder that that we always encourage clear signing.

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