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Title: It’s been 4 months & KeepKey’s hardware is still vulnerable to remote ransom att
Post by: Lenipiw on September 04, 2020, 05:09:32 PM

They are apparently working on other things that are of a higher priority.
A Shift Crypto employee successfully deployed a ransom attack on Trezor and KeepKey hardware wallets last May. While Trezor released a fix on September 2, KeepKey has yet to fix the issue.

According to a blog post published on September 2, the vulnerability affected all cryptocurrencies on affected devices. The exploit, which was first spotted on April 15 by developers Shift Crypto, also affected KeepKey wallets — which were originally based on a fork of Trezor’s code and likely operate on similar foundations.
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Title: Re: It’s been 4 months & KeepKey’s hardware is still vulnerable to remote ransom att
Post by: highnayem34 on September 10, 2020, 03:16:00 PM

When asked about the vulnerability, a KeepKey representative apparently commented that a fix had not yet been developed, explaining that their developers “are working on higher priority items first.”