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BitBox Warns Bitcoiners After Discovering ‘Severe’ Vulnerability In Firmware
Bitcoin wallet manufacturer BitBox has told users it was able to fix “severe vulnerabilities” with its hardware wallet’s firmware, and reassured users that no funds were taken. Yet it still urged users to upgrade carefully.
Writing in a blog post Tuesday, the Swiss company said that one of the vulnerabilities would have allowed an attacker to manipulate users into installing firmware that could lead a criminal to steal funds.
Users should update firmware through the official BitBoxApp, ideally by clicking the in-app update prompt rather than searching for it, BitBox said.
We just released the Dixence security update.
During our internal audits, we were able to discover and fix multiple security issues in the BitBox firmware.
We recommend our users to update their BitBoxApp and device firmware through the BitBoxApp settings.…
— BitBox (@BitBoxSwiss) Augu
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