Trezor reveals Malaysian reseller sold wallet with spyware

Trezor claims it has seen one of its crypto wallets sold by the official Malaysian-based reseller CryptoBilis containing a physical spyware implant. The tampered wallet was Trezor’s ‘Safe 5’ model, and was bought from CryptoBilis in August this year. Trezor told Protos that the implant involves an extra circuit board fitted between the main board and the screen, with a cellular module and an antenna. According to the user report, which Trezor has yet to thoroughly verify, the implant “reads what the screen shows, including the wallet backup, and sends it out over a mobile network whenever the device is plugged in.” This is similar to how the previous spyware device in Ledger devices functioned.

BeCrypto News shows a short excerpt and links to the publisher. The full report belongs to Protos.