Background: Crypto hardware wallet-maker Trezor recently disclosed a customer data breach in one of their shipping partners. This is problematic for crypto users in particular, since having one's home address revealed opens you to so-called "wrench attacks" - which is why we recommend using PO boxes for receiving potentially sensitive items where disclosing your ... View Post
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You Can’t Reorganize Your Way to DNS Security
Every couple of years a research report lands that gets DNS security mostly right, and then points everybody at the wrong fix. The latest is Enterprise Management Associates’ DDI Directions 2026. On the diagnosis, it’s hard to argue. DNS is under-secured, most of the people running it know it, and the attacks are getting nastier. All true. we’ve been saying ... View Post
Beyond Cloudflare: Building a Crypto-Native DNS Security Stack
Your crypto platform has Cloudflare. Your DNS runs on AWS Route53. You're spending $50,000 per month on security. And a DNS hijack still took you offline for six hours. The problem isn't wrong providers. It's infrastructure designed for a different threat model. Standard DNS was built for websites where downtime means lost revenue, but crypto platforms ... View Post
The Squarespace Migration That Took Down a Dozen Web3 Projects (And What Your Team Should Learn From It)
Think about the security stack protecting your crypto project right now. Smart contract audits — completed. Bug bounties — funded. Testnets — run. Multisig — deployed. Cold storage — configured. Endpoint detection — active. S OC monitoring — around the clock. Now consider this: The name your users type into a browser to access your protocol, ... View Post
DNS Hijacking 101: How Attackers Drain Crypto, DeFi & Web3 Platforms Without Touching a Smart Contract
You've hardened your servers. You've deployed endpoint detection. Your SOC team monitors alerts around the clock. But none of that matters when an attacker rewrites the internet's address book and redirects your traffic before it ever reaches your infrastructure. That's the quiet devastation of DNS hijacking. It's an attack class that doesn't breach your firewall so ... View Post
5 Ways Crypto, DeFi, and Web3 Platforms Can Use Real-Time Block Lists to Protect Their Customer’s Money and Personal Information
Your users are one DNS query away from a perfect clone of your platform. That clone is live right now, waiting to drain wallets the moment someone lands on it. Real-time blocklists (RBLs) fill a critical gap: the window between when a threat goes live and when your security team learns it exists. That window is where the damage happens. Here are five ways ... View Post






