Zeus Wallet Takes Infrastructure Offline After Cybersecurity Incident

Overview

• Zeus shut its infrastructure on August 5 and says the attack was contained within hours while it completes a comprehensive systems audit.
• The company insists no customer funds were lost or put at risk and plans to issue replacement Lightning Service Provider channels when services resume.
• Zeus has not disclosed how attackers gained access or whether any systems beyond its own infrastructure were affected, and it has given no timeline for restoring services.
• The incident comes as volunteer security teams are conducting AI-assisted reviews of wallets and libraries after confirmed Coldcard firmware thefts that exploited a deterministic fallback random-number generator.
• Users face immediate pain for Lightning payments and swaps while providers rebuild channels, and affected Coldcard users are being told to create new seed phrases on patched devices and migrate funds to stay safe.