Hardware Ledger cryptocurrency wallet manufacturer has discovered a vulnerability affecting all of its devices and may result in a loss of funds for users, according to a report. published on Saturday, February 3rd.

To mitigate the man in the intermediate attack vector reported here https://t.co/GFFVUOmlkk (affecting all hardware wallet providers), always check your address on the screen of the device by clicking on the "watch button" pic.twitter.com/EMjZJu2NDh – Ledger (@LedgerHQ) February 3, 2018

According to the report, a "man in the middle attack can be performed when the user is trying to generate an address to receive bitcoins in his Ledger wallet.If the computer used in this process is infected with malicious software, the attacker can secretly replace the code responsible for the generation of the address, causing "sending all future deposits to the". striker. "

How to protect yourself

Fortunately for the owners of their portfolios, Ledger also revealed how to avoid the "19459008" attack of "19459009". According to the report, users should take advantage of an "undocumented" wallet feature that displays the receipt address on the physical display of the wallet.

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By clicking the button from the monitor at the bottom left of the "Receive Bitcoins" menu and by confirming the address on the wallet's hardware screen whenever they generate a new one, users can make sure that the address was not tampered with.

The report further indicates that this feature is not mandatory and is not enforced by the interface of Ledger: Putting the Ultimate Responsibility for Fund Security on the Users themselves

Material portfolios are considered one of the surest ways to store cryptocurrencies, rather than keeping them on a purse or an exchange online 194590 07] However, with more than one million of Ledger ilisers affected by the newly discovered attack vector, it becomes clear that even a hardware portfolio does not make you "invincible" in the company's own words. ]