Lebanon pager attacks spark crypto supply chain fears
When thousands of pagers in Lebanon remotely detonated on Tuesday, they wounded over 3,000 people and killed at least 12. Lebanese militant group Hezbollah blamed Israeli forces for the explosions. A second round of attacks hit the country today, with walkie-talkies exploding at a Hezbollah funeral and in multiple areas of Beirut. At least one child died and another 100 people were injured. Although the attacks have no direct correlation with the crypto industry, they have prompted some concern about potential supply chain attacks. All crypto devices for self-custodying assets like bitcoin or ether are vulnerable to supply chain attacks. Ledger, Trezor, ColdCard, BitBox, and countless other hardware wallet makers promise their devices are secure. Nevertheless, like the thousands of pagers in Lebanon, the discrete steps of manufacturing an electronic device introduce countless moments of vulnerability. Somewhere in the logistics and supply chain preceding delivery to Lebanon and H...