We at Kraken believe that driving global crypto adoption relies on a solid cybersecurity framework in order to protect our clients’ financial freedom. It’s why our motto is security above everything. It’s also why we commemorate Cybersecurity Awareness Month each October. This year, we celebrated…
As Kraken’s Chief Security Officer, I’ve spent the past two years building one of the most advanced security programs in the cryptocurrency industry. While most of my work involves hardening our security behind the scenes, I also work with our Product and Engineering team on…
We’re excited to announce Kraken’s Crypto Security Guide, a new video series you can watch to learn security best practices from our top internal expert Nick Percoco. As our Chief Security Officer, Nick has over 20 years of information security experience spanning multiple industries. In…
Consider a common scenario. A crypto investor is at work when he or she suddenly reads in the news that Bitcoin is about to “moon.” They want to increase their position, but cannot get home for several hours. Afraid of missing out on the opportunity,…
Kraken Security Labs has devised a way to extract seeds from both cryptocurrency hardware wallets offered from industry leader Trezor, the Trezor One and Trezor Model T. The attack requires just 15 minutes of physical access to the device. This is the first time that…
Kraken Security Labs has found a way to extract seeds from a KeepKey cryptocurrency hardware wallet. All that is required is physical access to the wallet for about 15 minutes. Here’s how we did it: This attack relies on voltage glitching to extract your encrypted…
Although much of the original KeepKey codebase is based on the Trezor One, their codebases have diverged. The KeepKey team added several mitigation mechanisms to make the KeepKey firmware resilient to the glitching attacks demonstrated during the Wallet.Fail talk at 35th Chaos Communications Congress; however,…
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