Crypto software wallets at risk following supply chain attack
- Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet warned of a large-scale supply chain attack that could affect software crypto wallets.
- The warning follows reports of a reputable developer’s NPM account being compromised.
- Guillemet cautioned against performing on-chain transactions.
Charles Guillemet, Chief Technology Officer at Ledger, warned on Monday of a large-scale supply chain attack targeting crypto software wallets after the Node Package Manager (NPM) account of open-source developer qix was compromised.
Software wallets could face attacks from NPM breach
Crypto software wallets could be vulnerable to malicious attacks when performing transactions, said Guillemet in an X post on Monday.
Guillemet noted that a major supply chain…