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How browser extensions expose crypto to a fatal design flaw the industry ignored, bleeding $713M in 2025

Personal wallet hacks hit $713 million in 2025, noting the problem isn’t users, but the browser layer best practices.

Trust Wallet’s Chrome extension shipped a malicious update in December, exfiltrating wallet data and draining roughly $7 million from hundreds of accounts before the company pushed a fix.
The compromised version 2.68 was live for days, auto-updating … [9112 chars]

Source: CryptoSlate | Published: 2025-12-27T14:35:43Z

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