Not every crypto wallet is as secure or transparent as it appears. We ran the most widely used ones through rigorous testing to find seven that actually hold up.

Today Google Wallet is introducing a new feature in the US. Parents can set up a secure balance on Google Wallet for their kids and teens under 18. Once they do that, the kids and teens can tap to pay ...

Google launched a native supervised spending balance inside Google Wallet for US families on Thursday, August 6, 2026, giving Android-using parents a way to hand children a capped digital allowance — ...

The Bitcoin community is dealing with one of the most severe security events recorded in the cold-wallet sector. Over the course of several attack waves, more than 1,367 Bitcoins, worth approximately ...

On Jan. 10, 2026, a bitcoin and litecoin holder handed over their 12-word recovery phrase to someone posing as Trezor support and watched $282 million vanish in minutes, not because any encryption was ...

An attacker drained 1,196 Bitcoin addresses in 41 minutes on July 30, taking 1,082.65 BTC worth about $70.2 million at the time. Galaxy Research mapped the sweep and tied it to a firmware flaw in ...

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Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability let an attacker drain roughly 594 BTC — about $38 million — from around 500 wallets after firmware silently bypassed the device's own hardware random number ...

iOS 27 will launch this fall for all users, here’s what’s new for the Apple Wallet app in the next major iPhone update. Apple Wallet is continually improving, with several recent updates in iOS 26.

A malware framework known as OkoBot has been actively targeting Windows users since April 2025, with a specific module designed to steal recovery phrases from hardware cryptocurrency wallet owners.

Ctrl Wallet will permanently shut down on August 3, 2026, disabling transfers, swaps, and in-app activity. The company announced the closure on July 7 and pulled the app from major stores the same day ...

Thousands of cryptocurrency wallets across six blockchains are at immediate financial risk after blockchain security firm Coinspect on Sunday publicly disclosed a vulnerability it named "Ill Bloom," ...