7 October 2022
Beware! Fake Ledger Chrome Extensions Is Still Stealing Cryptos
The fake extension of Google Chrome for ‘Ledger’- crypto hardware wallet and custody provider has continued to scam victims.
A user on Reddit published a post on 28th March in which the user warned regarding the fake Ledger Wallet extension on Google Chrome and how the user lost over 14,908 Ripple (XRP).
As per the ‘ leannekera’, the funds that the user was holding comprised a nest that has been growing since 2017. The wallet that stolen her XRP quickly sent it to another wallet that holds nearly 15 million in XRP.
Leannekera is the victim of COVID-19 and is in self-imposed isolation in a single room of her house. She also stated that her husband is an employee in the ‘essential industry’ in the United Kingdom.
As leannekera was facing financial difficulties, she decided to liquidate some of her family’s crypto holdings and also moved any excess funds into XRP.
She said,
“I begin the day by selling a load of our other cryptocurrency for bitcoin, sold some to help us and I then consolidate the remaining into xrp. I then load up our Ledger. It’s been a while since I last accessed our Ledger (2018), and have since changed my computer. I recalled the Ledger having a Chrome extension and this is when the scam starts.”
Leannekera stated that she finds only one extension on Chrome store for Ledger with 70 positive reviews and ratings between 4 to 5. Leannekera entered Ledger’s recovery seed into the extension that leads to the stealing of her funds.
Ledger published a tweet regarding the fake chrome extensions which were identified by Harry Denly. The application imitates the Ledger’s desktop and mobile application Ledger Live and was even advertised on Google Ads.
After conducting the research at xrplorer forensics on 24th March, the fake Ledgerr extension was stolen around 1.4 million XRP in March itself.