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French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has committed to a "more ambitious" three-part security plan targeting the rise of physical attacks on cryptocurrency holders, after the tally of such incidents in France climbed to 77.
The announcement marks a formal acknowledgment that coercive, in-person theft — not exchange hacks or on-chain exploits — has become a measurable law-enforcement problem for the French crypto sector.
What a Wrench Attack Is and Why It Works The term "wrench attack" describes a threat model that bypasses cryptography entirely: rather than cracking a private key, an attacker finds the person who controls the wallet and uses physical force or intimidation to extract a transfer.
It exploits the one property of blockchain transactions that no protocol upgrade can fix — irreversibility.
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