How Joe Grand Hacked a $2M Crypto Wallet | Fault Injection Explained
Security Unfiltered PodcastOctober 17, 202600:09:02

How Joe Grand Hacked a $2M Crypto Wallet | Fault Injection Explained

A stranger emails Joe Grand: "I'm locked out of my Trezor One. There's $2 million on it. Can you help?" What followed was three months of learning voltage fault injection, a filmed live hack with the owner in the room, and five years of wallet recovery work.

Joe Grand and Joe South get into why "unhackable" is an invitation, what fault injection actually is, the mental health cost of high-stakes hacking, and how he and his colleague turned it into a technique that defeats security on STM32F2 and STM32F4 chips regardless of the product. Plus how you read a boot ROM, drop it into Ghidra, and why a bug in mask ROM can't be patched without new silicon.

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