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Techie buys fake Ledger Nano S+ hardware crypto wallet and almost falls for phishing — a convincing clone would have caught newbies unaware

  • [email protected] (Bruno Ferreira) , Bruno Ferreira--Tom's Hardware UK
  • published date: 2026-04-18 12:30:24 UTC

Hardware verification check was the one thing standing between virtual coins and a virtual robbery.

Score one for the safety-minded and cryptographic hardware checks. Joje Mendes, a Brazilian cybersecurity professional, almost got bitten by a sophisticated hardware-and-software phishing attack, in … [+3567 chars]