2025-5-27 16:59 |
Key takeawaysIn 2024 and 2025, fake airdrop scams targeting Hamster Kombat, Wall Street Pepe and others led to millions in user losses, contributing to over $9. origin »
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Hackers took over the official X accounts of ZKsync and developer Matter Labs to spread fake SEC warnings and promote a phishing airdrop. According to the latest update posted on May 13 from the main ZKsync account, the team said…
2025-5-13 11:06 | |
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Virtual reality-focused project Decentraland’s X account was compromised earlier today to promote phishing links. According to PeckSheild alert, on Sept. 19 crypto scammers took over Decentraland’s X account to promote a fake aidrop for its native token MANA, which eventually…
2024-9-20 13:01 | |
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Crypto price aggregator website CoinGecko says bad actors are flooding social media with fake GECKO token airdrops. Crypto data aggregator CoinGecko warned about fake airdrop scams, urging users to exercise caution as fraudulent schemes targeting its community gain traction. In…
2024-8-21 11:07 | |
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BLAST, the native token of Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Blast, surged 20% following its launch while a deluge of fake airdrop posts flooded X. BLAST debuted at $0.02 per token, giving it a fully diluted value (FDV) of $2 billion…
2024-6-27 15:10 | |
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In a significant effort to combat fraudulent activities in decentralized finance (DeFi), LayerZero Labs has flagged 803,093 addresses as potential sybils. The targets “airdrop farming,” where users create multiple fake accounts to unfairly benefit from token distributions.
2024-5-20 12:36 | |
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Hackers have struck the cryptocurrency market once again, exploiting a fake token bearing the name of Ethena Labs’ ENA token. The incident occurred shortly after Ethena Labs made headlines with the announcement of a massive 750 million ENA token airdrop.
2024-3-29 14:06 | |
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The phisher posted about a fake airdrop of a “BULL” token. Fake accounts of the BOME creator were also popping up. The meme coin season is in full swing. With new tokens getting launchedThe post BOME frenzy costs users $3M - All you need to know appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2024-3-17 11:30 | |
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Hackers breached MicroStrategy’s X account, sharing a scam link that led to the theft of nearly $500k in crypto. MicroStrategy, the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder, fell victim to a cyberattack on its X account on Feb. 26, with hackers…
2024-2-27 10:30 | |
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Users had lost a cumulative $440k due to the phishing scam as of this writing. MicroStrategy was yet to officially confirm the hack. The X (formerly Twitter) account of MicroStrategy, the woThe post MicroStrategy hack: Fake MSTR AirDrop costs users $440K appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2024-2-27 10:30 | |
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Hedera (HBAR) warns against fake airdrops amid surging market interest and recent milestones
2024-2-25 15:15 | |
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Though scammers behind the Inferno Drainer malware announced the closure in 2023, new reports indicate that more bad actors are the targeting KuCoin community. In an X post shared on Feb. 22, a web3 security advocate known as CryptoShields.eth disclosed…
2024-2-23 14:22 | |
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A sophisticated social engineering campaign successfully duped several prominent crypto news outlets into promoting a fabricated $10 million Uniswap airdrop on Feb. 16. The scammer, posing as a Uniswap Foundation representative, offered coordinated publicity in tandem with the legitimate Uniswap v4 announcement.
2024-2-17 16:45 | |
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CoinDesk's Jamie Crawley takes a look at the suddenly-high-profile proposal to revive Bitcoin's historic "OP_CAT" function as a way of enabling more development on the oldest blockchain. PLUS: the unofficial "ERC-404" tokens driving up fees on Ethereum and highlights from our Protocol Village column over the past week.
2024-2-16 21:11 | |
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Loopring’s X account remained compromised at press time, with the exploiters publishing multiple malicious links promoting a fake LRC airdrop.
2023-11-21 21:48 | |
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Loopring's official Twitter account has been compromised by phishing attackers who are redirecting users to a scam site using a fake airdrop as bait. The post Warning: Loopring (LRC) X Account Compromised by Phishing Attackers appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-11-21 15:51 | |
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An unknown individual generated 21,877 Sybil wallets, a token and even launched a DEX just to fake on-chain activity. An individual has made a whole ecosystem with its own token, wallets, and even launched a decentralized exchange (DEX) just to…
2023-9-11 14:51 | |
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A recent phishing attack involving a fake LayerZero airdrop targeting Twitter users has drained multiple crypto wallets. In a recent tweet, the security firm Certik advised users to be careful about any airdrops. They further said that the fake giveaway…
2023-7-16 15:09 | |
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Scammers have exploited the news of Ripple's victory with fake XRP airdrop scams as Ripple CTO issued a warning on the fraudulent activities.
2023-7-14 11:56 | |
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The Aptos Foundation’s official Twitter account was compromised recently by scammers. According to a warning tweet by Aptos Labs, the hackers took control of the @Aptos_Network account on Twitter, using it to spread misinformation about a fake APT airdrop.
2023-7-9 22:19 | |
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The bad actors used a fake Gutter Cat Gang airdrop scam to drain people’s wallets, with at least $700,000 worth of NFTs stolen from a single address.
2023-7-8 04:42 | |
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A security breach on Aptos Network's Twitter handle has allowed scammers to promote a fraudulent APT token airdrop campaign
2023-7-7 11:45 | |
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Scammers hijacked the Twitter account of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati to promote a crypto scam. The account was found promoting a fake cryptocurrency airdrop claimed to be conducted by OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI tool, ChatGPT.
2023-6-5 16:55 | |
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Coinspeaker OpenAI CTO’s Twitter Account Hacked, Used to Promote Fake $OPENAI Crypto Airdrop The fake $OPENAI token tweet remained active for about an hour. OpenAI CTO’s Twitter Account Hacked, Used to Promote Fake $OPENAI Crypto Airdrop
2023-6-3 16:48 | |
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Bad actors took control of Discord server of Orbiter Finance and posted phishing links. Community members lost NFTs, stablecoins and other tokens. The post Hackers Target Orbiter Finance Discord Server With Fake Airdrop Scam appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-6-1 14:45 | |
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Bad actors have compromised the Orbiter Finance Discord server. The hackers have posted a link to a fake airdrop program on the platform. Orbiter Finance, a decentralized cross-rollup layer-2 bridge, is the latest blockchain protocol to be targeted by hackers.…
2023-6-1 13:56 | |
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A Twitter account belonging to Arthur Madrid, the co-founder and CEO of The Sandbox, a metaverse project, was compromised recently by an unknown hacker. The hacker used the account to spread a phishing scam that claimed to offer a free…
2023-5-27 16:54 | |
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Metamask hass given a warning on fraudulent activity surrounding a supposed airdrop of Metamask tokens. This comes as more hackers keep utilizing the recent airdrops to scam off customers their funds.
2023-3-29 14:25 | |
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The Arbitrum airdrop has created quite a hype in the DeFi industry, with several fake airdrops and exploits leading up to the distribution.
2023-3-26 23:25 | |
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Stablecoin issuer Circle has warned its community about a fake USD Coin (USDC) airdrop on the Twitter account of its chief strategy officer and head of global policy, Dante Disparte. The post USDC issuer Circle issues warning about hacked executive account appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2023-3-22 18:41 | |
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The impending "ARB" token airdrop hosted by Arbitrum looks to have become a favorite target for con artists.
2023-3-20 13:21 | |
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XRP scam featuring Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse promoted by Twitter and involving India's major news channel News24
2023-3-20 12:57 | |
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The community has warned others to stay vigilant after reports of phishing websites and scams offering Arbitrum airdrop tokens.
2023-3-20 09:14 | |
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Hackers promote fake XRP airdrop by Ripple using account of Governor of India's Madhya Pradesh
2023-3-1 15:27 | |
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Fake copy of AGIX, core utility and governance cryptocurrency for Cardano-friendly AI team SingularityNET, is promoted by scammers
2023-2-11 12:40 | |
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Scammers decided to explore hype over Frax Finance's reserve token FXS that surprisingly rallied in recent weeks
2023-1-20 16:01 | |
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An unknown entity conducted the phishing attack by using a fake Uniswap airdrop message.
2022-7-12 14:56 | |
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Luna 2. 0: A real airdrop of the cryptocurrency will be made today. But criminals are taking advantage of the imminent release to create fake airdrops of the new cryptocurrency of the Terra ecosystem.
2022-5-27 08:34 | |
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Scammer was trying to trick users into sending their Luna tokens to a fake airdrop address
2022-5-26 15:37 | |
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Modern crypto users may have been thinking that they knew everything about such blatant scams. However, the ongoing fake airdrop is a special one.
2020-7-6 17:16 | |
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Someone created a Youtube account pretending to be Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, to scam users. The scammer promoted an XRP airdrop requesting deposits from 2,000 XRP to 250,000 XRP to participate, offering high amounts as a “reward” after an airdrop.
2020-3-25 09:54 | |
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Bogus YouTube account exposes a fake XRP airdrop scam to over 270,000 subscribers, impersonates Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse
2020-3-25 17:02 | |
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It looks like crypto scammers have completely lost their creativity. XRP becomes the target of a new fraudulent airdrop campaign
2020-2-16 21:30 | |
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The Stellar Development Foundation won’t be airdropping 2 billion Lumens after all. In a blog post yesterday, Keybase and the Stellar Development Foundation announced the cancellation of its 2 billion Lumens airdrop program after getting attacked by “hordes” of fake accounts.
2019-12-12 06:24 | |
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Be wary if you come across ads that promote an airdrop, distributing tokens for popular cryptocurrency exchange desk Huobi: the offer might be fake, and you might be getting swooped into an elaborate ploy designed to steal your coins.
2019-3-15 14:45 | |
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