Web3 Security Weekly News Review — October 5–11, 2026
A hardware wallet's distribution channel — not its chip — leaked the seed phrases of hundreds of users for the better part of $90M, and the stolen stablecoins went straight for…
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Web3 Security Weekly Data Report — October 5–11, 2026
The week's number was one incident: a reseller channel that leaked seed phrases for the better part of $86M. Strip it out and the other five events total under $14M — the same…
Web3 Security Weekly Intelligence — October 5–11, 2026
The seed phrase was read off the screen before the buyer ever used the device, and the stolen dollars pivoted to the one stablecoin that has no kill switch — the week's two facts…
Deep Analysis: The Seed Phrase That Never Reached the Internet — the Ledger Reseller Supply-Chain Drain, a Full-Chain Review
The wallets were never hacked — they were shipped compromised. A chip behind the screen read the words as they appeared, and the one precaution that matters in self-custody…
Web3 Security Weekly News Review — September 28–October 4, 2026
A vault with no named owner lost $6M to a whitelist entry, a swap protocol got its $3.8M back in 36 hours with a public ultimatum, and the exchange breached for $387.5M finished…
Web3 Security Weekly Intelligence — September 28–October 4, 2026
Every dollar lost this week sat in the glue — an allowlist, a Safe module, a hook, a deposit rail — and for the first time in this column's coverage, a public ultimatum brought…
Web3 Security Weekly News Review — September 21–27, 2026
A $20K governance vote took over a chain's applications, an exchange lost $387.5M without a single private key being stolen, and the costliest month of 2026 got that way in seven…
Web3 Security Weekly Intelligence — September 21–27, 2026
The week's losses came from the layer above the keys: an exchange backend that could forge transactions, a governance process that could reassign contract admins, and a rollup…
Web3 Security Weekly News Review — September 14–20, 2026
Two signing keys drove the week's damage — a prepared list worked for six days, and a bridge minted from a compromised key — while the other failures shared one shape, a check…
Web3 Security Weekly Intelligence — September 14–20, 2026
The week's largest loss needed no exploit at all: a list of keys, an app that kept signing with them, and six days in which nobody stopped it. The rest of the damage came from an…
Web3 Security Weekly News Review — August 24–30, 2026
10 events; ~$33.8M realized; two price-manipulation lending attacks define the week and the month — plus a chain rollback that reversed $111.2M.
Web3 Security Weekly Data Report — August 24–30, 2026
~$33.8M realized losses across 9 loss events (plus one data breach tracked separately), up 52% week-over-week; price manipulation dominates and a rollback changed what the…
Web3 Security Weekly News Review — August 17–23, 2026
9 whitelist-sourced events; ~$22.2M realized losses; a $8.5M governance takeover takes the headline while a shared-infrastructure bug spreads across six Cosmos EVM chains.
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