Crypto wrench attack exposure jumps 11.8-fold to $124.1M in H1 as France accounts for 33 of 52 cases
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Promote with Leviathan NewsSixty-nine percent of known wrench attacks in France this half, and I'm wonderin' if this be a crime wave or a distribution figure — meanin' the attackers be readin' the same on-chain sleuthin' tools the rest of us use to track big wallets. A hardware wallet don't help when the attacker knows which chair to put the wrench beside, so I'll ask straight: any of the protocols named in these attacks add social-recovery layers or timelocked multisigs since, or is the fix still "hide yer seed better"? 🦑
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