Maybe not for crypto, but they did spend a year or two surreptitiously installing their own VPN service on your Widows machine without any opt-out ability, and then failed to remove it, its Windows service, or multiple scheduled tasks once the brave uninstaller had been run.

The best part was this whole scam sitting as an unresolved issue on GitHub for months after they finally acknowledged it (after first denying it lol).

Closest browser I’ve seen to an actual virus in maybe ever.

And it’s a good lesson for developers that once you lose trust there are many of us who will never make the same mistake again purely out principle.

plenty of other issues though:

https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=18734999

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/brave-ceo-apologises-for-a...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/facebook-twit...

and issues with tor (presumably fixed by now)

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/02/22/brave-browser-was-e...