{"id":50529,"date":"2025-09-08T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/?p=50529"},"modified":"2025-09-08T23:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:32:41","slug":"important-announcement-from-ledger-cto-charles-guillemet-hack-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/important-announcement-from-ledger-cto-charles-guillemet-hack-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Announcement from Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet: Hack Warning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet warned users against certain crypto transactions. The npm supply chain attack is emptying the most commonly used crypto wallets. In this case, users are advised to avoid common-based transactions. However, warnings were issued regarding the use of hardware wallets only.<\/p>\n<p>A JavaScript npm account that can both track and direct crypto transactions was found to be distributing packages containing malicious code. This highlighted that developers and affected packages were at great risk shortly after the attack. Since secure versions have not yet been released, the community was notified of this situation via the Hackernoon profile.<\/p>\n<p>It is emphasized that the stolen npm maintainer account could not be recovered and was most likely stolen through a fake 2FA process. GitHub users have also reported receiving suspicious emails sent via npmjs support. This incident is considered the largest npm supply chain attack in history. Warnings have been issued that if the emails succeed in compromising other user accounts, more suppliers could be at risk.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Crypto Wallets Under Supply Chain Threat<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Cryptopolitan recently announced that two packages were compromised in a crypto theft attack via Ethereum. It was also stated that the attack was quite large in scale. It was emphasized that 2 billion downloads per week affected 18 popular npm packages. Warnings were also issued about the need to avoid these packages. Supply chain attacks are considered one of the most significant risks in the crypto world. Even if users perform their transactions correctly, the destination of funds may still be subject to this risk. 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The npm supply chain attack is emptying the most commonly used crypto wallets. In this case, users are advised to avoid common-based transactions. However, warnings were issued regarding the use of hardware wallets only. A JavaScript npm account that can both track and direct crypto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":35412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[516,23548],"class_list":["post-50529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ledger","tag-ledger-hack"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Important Announcement from Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet: Hack Warning! - Coin Engineer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ledger has made an important announcement. 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