Crypto Hackers Attack Trezor Hardware Wallets Users

​Trezor, a hardware wallet providing advanced security for handling Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies private keys, announced that a number of its customers have received fake communications regarding their Trezor hardware wallets over the last few days.

Specifically, malicious actors breached Trezor's competitor's e-commerce database bought from a dark market, and then blindly attacked Ledger customers whom they presume may also own a Trezor wallet, and created phishing links for them to enter their seeds. Once the user enters their seed on the fake webpage, the attacker simply replicates their wallet and sends the funds to an address they own.

The company confirmed that its customer data has not been leaked and assured that the attackers do not appear to know if the people they have targeted do in fact own a Trezor.

“Trezor will never ask for your recovery seed, and will never communicate with you by text regarding your device. Do not trust anyone asking for your recovery seed; providing it will compromise your account and allow anyone to take your coins,”the crypto firm warns.

“Attacks like this have been seen before, and they will continue to rise in number, as long as Bitcoin’s price remains high enough to make it worth the effort. Awareness is key, and there are many resources to share with others to inform them about the dangers. There is, unfortunately, no way to prevent these types of attacks from taking place; this particular attack is related to demographic data of hardware wallet users in general, and data breaches of data from advertisers or other cryptocurrency vendors could result in similar mass attacks to the ones we have seen recently.”