A Spy Chip Inside the Wallet: The Ledger Supply-Chain Implant and the Retail Channels Nobody Audits
A hidden microcontroller, an extra circuit board, and a stolen 24-word phrase Ledger has told every distributor and reseller in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong to stop selling its hardware wallets and pull the devices off shelves. This is not a firmware bug or a phishing campaign. Someone opened Ledger devices before they reached customers,…