Ethereum and Solana Under Attack: The Hidden Crypto Threat That Almost Got Everyone

Crypto faced a serious security scare this week. Ledger’s CTO, Charles Guillemet, revealed that a large-scale supply chain attack targeted the JavaScript ecosystem through compromised NPM packages. These packages had been downloaded more than a billion times, raising alarms across the industry. The malicious code worked by silently swapping crypto wallet addresses on the fly.