Phishing campaign targeting Ledger users with fake data-breach alert emails claiming security compromise and urging firmware updates. Attackers used Punycode domain spoofing (e.g., ledģėr.com) to disguise malicious URLs and trick users into compromising their hardware wallet recovery phrases.

Phishing and scams targeting Ledger wallet owners are increasing, and one of the scam websites obtained more than 1,150,000 XRP from victims. This scam uses phishing emails to direct users to a fake Ledger website. On this fake website, the victim was tricked into downloading malware that pretended to be a security update, resulting in the theft of all Ledger wallet balances. According to the fraud identification website xrplorer operated by the community, the XRP obtained from the scam was sent to Bittrex through 5 deposits, but the exchange “cannot freeze XRP in time”.