This week on Crypto Weekly Recap, we’re looking at one of the biggest weaknesses in crypto security: trust.

North Korea-linked hackers reportedly used fake job interviews to compromise thousands of devices and crypto wallets around the world. A compromised Cloudflare API key turned trusted Brevo website infrastructure into malware delivery. A custom Safe wallet module exposed millions in rsETH. And fraudulent government requests reportedly led to sensitive Revolut customer information being disclosed.

Different attacks. Same lesson:

Trust is not verification.

We also break down this week’s market action, Federal Reserve policy, Bitcoin and Ethereum momentum, ETF flows, leverage, and a strong week for Avalanche.

In Beginner’s Corner, we explain why you should never run unknown code on the same computer that holds your wallets, passwords, exchange sessions, or sensitive accounts.

And in the HundredCoin Spotlight, we connect this week’s security lesson back to patience, discipline, and the value of slowing down before you act.

I’ve personally been caught in a fake-job crypto scam before, so this week’s main story hits especially close to home.

Security First. Hype Last.

Stay patient.

Stay disciplined.

Stay dangerous to scammers.

Keep it 💯.

You logged into the real trading platform. The malicious browser extension was already waiting.

This week on Crypto Weekly Recap, U.S., your Hard Working Crypto Sleuth, breaks down extensions targeting Axiom and Padre/Terminal users—stealing session tokens and wallet-related data without asking for a seed phrase. The data-theft capability is confirmed; actual crypto losses remain unknown.

We also follow Liquid Network’s partial recovery and continuing redemption restrictions, fake recovery messages targeting worried users, the Xinbi enforcement action, and RubyGems’ disclosure about malicious software packages.

In Beginner’s Corner: your balance is visible—but can you actually get it out? Plus, the HundredCoin Spotlight connects patience to the security lessons I learned firsthand.

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Educational content only. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

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What if the threat wasn’t the blockchain—but something you had already learned to trust?

In Case File #77, U.S., your Hard Working Crypto Sleuth, investigates three attacks that turned ordinary crypto workflows into dangerous attack surfaces.

First, the Sality botnet spent eight years using EggJagger malware to silently replace copied Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses before victims approved their transactions.

Then, a shared Cosmos EVM accounting flaw exposed six blockchain networks, proving that shared code can create a shared blast radius.

Finally, the “Superior” campaign transformed legitimate Chrome and Edge extensions into wallet drainers, credential stealers, and fake Ledger and Trezor recovery prompts.

We’ll also break down this week’s market conditions, Bitcoin’s battle near $80,000, Avalanche’s latest institutional payment development, and why patience can serve as a security checkpoint.

This week’s lesson is simple:

Trusted does not mean safe forever.

Slow down before you copy.

Slow down before you trust.

Slow down before you sign.

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What if an attacker didn’t have to break the vault—because the vault’s own rules opened the door?

In Case File #76, U.S., your Hard Working Crypto Sleuth, investigates the Term Labs governance exploit that reportedly drained approximately $8.5 million from its DeFi vaults.

The attacker allegedly obtained a small voting position, submitted what appeared to be a routine governance proposal, and waited through six days of silence. When nobody vetoed it, the proposal became executable—allowing the vault’s security delay to be removed and millions in assets to be redirected.

This episode investigates:

🔎 How silence became permission

🔎 Why a small voting position could influence millions

🔎 How governance can become a protocol’s attack surface

🔎 Why an audit badge doesn’t tell the whole security story

🔎 Five governance questions to ask before depositing into DeFi

🔎 Bitcoin’s run above $80,000 and the resistance waiting there

🔎 Why intentional friction can sometimes protect investors

The biggest lesson from this case:

Don’t only ask whether the contract can be hacked. Ask who can legally tell the contract what to do.

🎙️ Crypto Weekly Recap — Case File #76

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This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice.

Crypto Weekly Recap — Case File #75

August 22, 2026

🎙️ Grand Theft Crypto, Phantom SAND & Rogue AI Agents

This week, the Crypto Sleuth follows one theme across three very different threats:

Something can look valuable, sound legitimate, and move fast—while having nothing trustworthy underneath it.

🎮 Grand Theft Crypto: Alleged GTA 6 leaks are being used to generate attention around a Solana memecoin. We break down how exclusive content, controversy, and a digital-rights narrative can become the perfect social-engineering funnel—and why hype is never proof of legitimacy.

🌉 Billions of Phantom SAND: A bridge vulnerability affecting The Sandbox allowed massive amounts of unbacked SAND to be created across Base and BNB Smart Chain. We explain what happened, why the eye-popping nominal figures don’t equal actual dollars stolen, and what an “unbacked bridged token” really means.

🤖 AI Agents Cross the Boundary: Advanced AI cybersecurity testing raises an important question for crypto users: What happens when an autonomous agent has more authority than it should? We examine the danger of giving AI agents access to wallets, credentials, browsers, code execution, and transaction signing without strong human controls.

📊 Market Snapshot: Bitcoin leads the market as liquidity conditions improve, ETF demand remains important, and billions in bearish positions get squeezed. Meanwhile, AVAX volatility remains high as Avalanche strengthens its institutional leadership team.

🔺 AVAX Spotlight: Ava Labs’ leadership changes point toward continued emphasis on institutional finance, regulated markets, and global adoption—even while AVAX price action remains volatile.

💯 HundredCoin Spotlight: This week’s stories all demonstrate what can happen when urgency overwhelms verification. HundredCoin’s 100-hour holding mechanism provides a different lesson:

Patience is a security feature.

🔎 Beginner’s Corner

What is an unbacked bridged token?

If a bridged token represents an asset that isn’t actually locked behind it, the ticker, logo, and wallet balance may still look legitimate—but the redemption promise underneath it can be worthless.

This week’s lesson:

Attention is not value.

A ticker is not backing.

Intelligence is not authorization.

Convenience is not containment.

Slow down before you trust.

Slow down before you sign.

Slow down before you automate.

🎧 Crypto Weekly Recap — Case File #75

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Nothing in this episode is financial advice. Crypto Weekly Recap is provided for education, security awareness, and market analysis.

Your private keys can stay secure and you can still get wrecked.

This week, Crypto Sleuth looks beyond the seed phrase and into the expanding security perimeter surrounding your crypto.

We break down the Trezor shipping-provider data breach that exposed personal information belonging to nearly 14,000 hardware-wallet customers—and why your home address should now be treated as crypto-security data.

Then we investigate the Coreum/XRPL bridge exploit, where nearly 200,000 XRP was drained without compromising the XRP Ledger or stealing private keys. The failure was in the verification logic.

We also dig into a growing AI threat: AgentBaiting. Malicious GitHub repositories disguised as legitimate AI Skills and MCP servers are creating a new attack path where scammers don’t just social-engineer people—they social-engineer the AI agents helping them.

Plus:

🔐 Why transaction simulations aren’t guarantees

🤖 How to secure AI agents before giving them powerful permissions

🌉 Why bridge security goes far beyond multisig

📝 What token approvals actually allow a smart contract to do

📊 Bitcoin, Ethereum, ETF flows, liquidity and the broader market

🏔️ This week’s Avalanche outlook

💯 Why HundredCoin’s 100-hour mechanic demonstrates a bigger security principle: sometimes friction protects you

The lesson from Case File #74 is simple:

A secure private key does not automatically mean you have a secure crypto operation.

Your identity.

Your software.

Your approvals.

Your infrastructure.

Your automation.

It’s all part of the security perimeter.

Case File #73 examines a recurring theme across modern cryptocurrency attacks: blockchain infrastructure can operate exactly as designed while surrounding systems fail.

The episode covers the August 9 Coinsbuy incident spanning Ethereum and TRON, exploitation involving BTCPay Server and LND credentials, a macOS ClickFix malware campaign targeting cryptocurrency users, emerging security risks created by AI-controlled wallets, and research demonstrating transaction-simulation phishing.

The overarching lesson is that crypto security increasingly depends on protecting the entire operational environment rather than focusing exclusively on seed phrases and private keys.

Case File #72 examines four security failures involving misplaced trust and uncontrolled authority.

The lead segment covers Coinkite’s updated Coldcard security advisory concerning reduced entropy in seeds generated by affected firmware. The episode explains why updating firmware does not repair an existing seed and walks listeners through a careful wallet-migration process.

Additional segments examine the $7.44 million Verus Protocol bridge exploit, an autonomous-AI security incident involving Hugging Face infrastructure and a fake IRS “Digital Asset Compliance Portal” campaign targeting cryptocurrency holders through physical mail, QR-code phishing and follow-up calls.

The episode concludes with a Beginner’s Corner explaining the difference between restoring and migrating a seed, followed by a HundredCoin lesson connecting patience with safer transaction behavior.

🎙️ Crypto Weekly Recap – Episode 71

Case File #71: The Signatures Were Valid. The System Was Compromised.

This week on Crypto Weekly Recap, we examine three real-world attacks that prove modern crypto theft isn’t always about breaking blockchain technology—it’s about exploiting the trust surrounding it.

We begin with the AFX bridge compromise, where approximately $24.15 million in USDC was drained after an attacker used enough apparently valid validator signatures to authorize a fraudulent withdrawal. What looked like a legitimate transaction exposed a much deeper operational security failure.

Next, we break down ClickLock Stealer, a new macOS malware campaign that pressures victims into entering their own system passwords. Learn how fake verification pages, Terminal commands, and repeated password prompts can lead to stolen wallet files, browser sessions, and cryptocurrency.

Finally, we explore EtherHiding, an emerging technique that uses a Polygon smart contract to help malware locate its command-and-control infrastructure. It is a fascinating—and concerning—example of attackers abusing public blockchain technology in ways many people have never considered.

Also in this episode:

• 📈 Weekly Market Snapshot

• 🛡️ Beginner’s Corner: Why a real password prompt doesn’t always mean it’s safe

• 💯 HundredCoin Spotlight: Why patience can be a security feature—not just an investing strategy

• ❤️ Community Shout-Outs celebrating the people helping educate, build, and protect the crypto community

Whether you’re new to crypto or a seasoned investor, this episode will help you better understand how today’s attackers think—and how slowing down can often be your strongest defense.

Remember:

The technology didn’t necessarily fail. Trust did.

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Steam Malware, Physical-Mail Phishing and the Collapse of Blind Trust

Podcast Description

The game opened. It ran normally. But hidden in the background, malware was allegedly searching thousands of computers for cryptocurrency wallets and credentials worth stealing.

In Case File #70, U.S., the Hard Working Crypto Sleuth, investigates a Steam malware campaign tied to infected video games, approximately 8,000 compromised devices, around 80 exposed wallets and more than $220,000 in alleged crypto theft.

The episode also examines personalized physical letters targeting Ledger owners, QR codes designed to steal 24-word recovery phrases and the Jscrambler supply-chain compromise that allowed malicious software to be published through a legitimate npm namespace.

This week’s lesson is simple: official does not always mean safe, working software is not necessarily clean and accurate personal information does not prove a security warning is real.

Plus, Beginner’s Corner explains why trusted platforms still require verification, the Action Required section gives listeners practical steps to protect wallets and developer environments, and the HundredCoin Spotlight explores why patience remains one of crypto’s most underrated security tools.

Security First. Hype Doesn’t Last.