July 13, 2026·Bearish·critical issue

Ill Bloom Bug Drains $5M from Weak Crypto Wallets

A vulnerability dubbed 'Ill Bloom' exploited weak recovery phrases to drain approximately $5 million from crypto wallets across multiple blockchains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. The attack targets wallets with insufficiently random or short seed phrases, compromising entire wallets rather than individual transactions. Users are urged to strengthen their recovery phrases and move funds to hardware wallets.

Detected & updated continuously · Source: Ruma

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Bitcoin (btc)

Ethereum (eth)

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@CrispyBull

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