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Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 19, 2026Published at 1:47 AM EDT · New York
BitBox Patches Two Severe Firmware Flaws Found by Its Own AI-Assisted Audit
One defect let a malicious host execute arbitrary code on unconfigured devices, and a second could lock bitcoin to an address the owner never chose, with no exploitation identified.
The Swiss hardware-wallet maker BitBox told users it had fixed severe vulnerabilities in its firmware and asked them to update. The first flaw involved memory corruption on BitBox02 Multi and BitBox02 Nova devices that had not yet been set…
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Hardware-Wallet Trust Erodes
Recurring firmware and entropy defects in self-custody hardware, now surfaced faster by AI-assisted code analysis, will keep pushing risk-averse holders toward custodial and ETF products rather than personal key management.
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