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North Korean hackers, known as Citrine Sleet, have exploited a severe zero-day vulnerability in the Chromium browser to attack crypto financial institutions. Citrine Sleet targeted financial institutions and crypto entities to steal digital assets.
2024-8-31 21:10 | |
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Authorities in Hong Kong have flagged a surge in counterfeit banknotes brought into circulation via cryptocurrency scams. According to a local report, the Hong Kong police seized 3,396 fake notes between January and April 2024. The counterfeits amounted to a…
2024-6-3 14:36 | |
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Google has initiated a lawsuit against a group of individuals accused of orchestrating a vast cryptocurrency scam that impacted over 100,000 users globally.
2024-4-4 17:29 | |
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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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Scammers have started targeting Nansen’s customers via email by offering fake airdrops after the firm’s third-party vendor suffered data leak. Cybercriminals are sending out phishing emails to Nansen customers exposed in a recent data breach related to one of the…
2023-11-24 13:11 | |
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A fraudulent crypto wallet application on the Microsoft store has swindled users out of $768,000 in Bitcoin and Ethereum. On Nov. 5, crypto investigator ZachXBT issued a warning via the X platform (formerly Twitter) about the fraudulent application named Ledger…
2023-11-6 12:46 | |
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Criminals continue to use Money Saving Expert founder Martin Lewis’ image to defraud investors via Facebook Ads, despite Lewis settling a lawsuit with Facebook’s parent Meta over the illegal use of his photos in such scams years ago, The Independent reported.
2022-5-11 07:45 | |
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Thousands of users were scammed into buying fake Android cryptocurrency mining apps, according to a California-based security firm. These apps are advertised as a way of earning money via mining cryptocurrencies, but in actuality they don’t perform any function.
2021-7-9 15:30 | |
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Aprils Fools was almost over, but there was still a joke in store in the crypto space. Litecoin creator Charlie Lee made a fake announcement via Twitter claiming that Litecoin would be rebranded to BitcoinLite, “as Satoshi Nakamoto intended.
2021-4-2 22:00 | |
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The 53-year-old Bulgarian national was convicted for laundering funds via cryptocurrency for a fake online auctions gang.
2021-1-13 12:47 | |
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Cybercrime gangs have stolen over to $22 million from users who use the Electrum Bitcoin wallets via a fake app update scam according to an investigation. The criminals later transferred the stolen fuThe post Hackers have stolen 1,980 Bitcoin via wallet 'fake update' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-13 22:30 | |
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BeInCrypto has always supported transparent, truthful, and critical journalism since its inception in 2018. As such, we support Google’s continued drive to snuff out fake news and disingenuous media outlets via regular updates to its core algorithm.
2020-5-13 15:15 | |
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Approximately 1.4 million XRP has been stolen from the users in the month of March alone through the use of a fake Google Chrome extension. Through a thread of tweets released on March 24, a research group known as xrplorer forensics, revealed that hackers are stealing user backup passphrases through fraudulent Ledger Live extensions. Xplorer […]
2020-3-26 21:30 | |
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Ledger users, beware. There are some bad actors operating right now looking to seize your backup seeds. If you see an ad on a Google search for a Ledger Live Chrome extension – avoid it like the plague.
2020-3-26 18:00 | |
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Scammers may have pivoted from the world's largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, to other parts of the industry by plaguing inboxes with malware over the years. And as the ecosystem has evolved and become The post Over 1.
2020-3-25 13:30 | |
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The ESET research team discovers malware inside a Tor Browser version that fishes Bitcoin out of darknet shoppers
2019-10-18 15:59 | |
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A new report by researchers at The Tie provides insight into which digital assets are being manipulated via bots and fake social media accounts.
2019-8-23 15:05 | |
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Crypto thieves are now embedding Qulab, the information-stealing and clipboard hijacking Trojan in YouTube videos promoting a fake Bitcoin generator tool, in a bid to steal victims’ bitcoin and other virtual currencies, according to a report by BleepingComputer on May 29, 2019.
2019-5-31 09:00 | |
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While the entire cryptospace is busy celebrating the return of the “bulls,” bad actors have formulated a new scheme aimed at stealing victims’ cryptos and injecting ransomware into their systems. These hackers are now using several websites to push their fake bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) giveaway programs, according to a Bleeping Computer report onRead MoreRead More.
2019-5-28 13:00 | |
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Just like in the traditional financial system where fraudsters never cease to exist, crypto thieves are also getting smarter every day. In the latest, they’ve now moved from conducting cryptojacking operations to creating fake apps on Google Play, in a bid to “phish” for bitcoin (BTC), reports SecurityBrief on May 23, 2019.
2019-5-24 23:00 | |
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Police have busted two prolific dark web drug markets in a global sting, seizing six-figure amounts of Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrency, as well as loads of narcotics. “[The Wall Street Market] was the world’s second largest dark web market, enabling the trade in drugs (including cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines), stolen data, fake documents and malicious software,” said Europol.
2019-5-3 16:21 | |
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By CCN. com: A notice on the official website for the City of Berkeley police department warns residents of phone scams involving Bitcoin. Calling them “cyber-enabled fraud crime,” the post talks about a woman who scammers attempted to victimize via telephone – even calling her from the number 911.
2019-4-27 19:49 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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CoinSpeaker Fighting Fake Degrees: Platform to Verify Education and Work Experience via Blockchain In order to end the era of falsified diplomas and certifications, EchoLink Foundation designed the EKO Blockchain Platform - the platform aimed to provide verified education, skill, and work experience information.
2019-2-5 14:41 | |
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Hackers managed to steal close to $900,000 worth of Bitcoin from Electrum wallet users via a phishing attack. While the attacks seem to have come to a halt, Electrum Devs say the hackers can launch new exploits since the issue hasn’t been permanently fixed.
2018-12-28 15:00 | |
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Numerous bomb threat reports surfaced on Tuesday where Bitcoin scammers asked schools, businesses, and other organizations to pay $20,000 in BTC to ensure that the bombs are not detonated. The threats were sent via emails in multiple countries.
2018-12-14 14:59 | |
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Leading cryptocurrency investor law firm Silver Miller Law has filed suit against cell phone giants AT&T and T-Mobile on behalf of several digital asset investors who were victims of the identity-theft tactic known as “SIM swapping.
2018-11-10 01:35 | |
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The education minister of Malaysia has formed a new consortium of universities that will use the blockchain technology to put the college degrees of everybody in the blockchain and tackle a massive local industry of fake certificates.
2018-11-9 21:59 | |
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“Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening,” Donald Trump, the president of the United States, once said at a rally. There is no doubt that we have entered a new age of bewilderment in which it is harder than ever before to decide where the truth lies.
2018-10-13 11:59 | |
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Cryptocurrency Scams Overview & How to Avoid! The regulation of crypto coins remains a grey zone in most jurisdictions as of press date. This has resulted to the loss of digital currencies via Coin exchange platforms which may be hacked.
2018-10-10 20:16 | |
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Fake sex videos aren’t a new phenomenon, but advancement in AI is worrying as ‘deepfakes’ are becoming increasingly harder to distinguish from real videos. Deepfake tech has become easily accessible and videos can be made via FakeApp or on affordable consumer-grade equipment, which is partly why earlier this year the web was flooded with pornographic films of high-profile female celebrities.
2018-10-5 14:34 | |
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Many of us are familiar with the term “DApp,” which stands for “decentralized application. ”Foundationally, a DApp is an application that runs using blockchain technology on a decentralized network of computers instead of on a central database.
2018-9-4 21:43 | |
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We’re used to major leaks happening in the weeks leading up to a smartphone release, but its rare to see one as substantial as the Pixel 3 XL leak that just hit the web today. Russian site Rozetked was able to acquire what appears to be a production Pixel 3 XL via an anonymous source over a month before its expected announcement in October – let alone its actual sale date.
2018-8-22 19:09 | |
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Twitter hate cryptocurrency don’t they. It’s no surprise, it seems that Twitter is a hub for cryptocurrency scams. Though advertising is banned, it’s still very easy for people to set up fake pages for ICO’s/crypto events and even easier for people to run multiple Twitter bots for this purpose too.
2018-8-15 08:00 | |
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Researchers at Duo Labs have discovered that Twitter is home to at least 15,000 scam bots and have published their findings in a new report. Between May and July of 2018, staff members observed, collected and analyzed nearly 90 million public Twitter accounts that had released over 500 million tweets.
2018-8-9 20:51 | |
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In 2015 Axact, a software company that runs numerous websites selling fake academic degrees, earned $51 million after it sold over 215,000 fake qualifications worldwide, via 350 fictitious schools and universities.
2018-8-3 20:19 | |
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The world of cryptocurrency is in a constant state of flux. As a result, the process of sorting through untold amounts of background information and data can be a laborious, time-consuming endeavor.
2018-7-30 16:47 | |
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Security experts at Kaspersky Lab report that online crypto scammers target those interested in ICOs, using phishing emails and fake Twitter giveaways to attract victims
2018-7-13 19:22 | |
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Reports have confirmed that Japan has been targeted by cybercriminals using phishing, or illegal acquisition of personal information, to steal cryptocurrencies by sending fake emails to crypto exchange users.
2018-7-2 14:20 | |
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With crypto scams running rampant across the globe, Human Trust Protocol, aka Hub, is joining hands with Civic, a blockchain identification service provider, to verify users via know-your-client (KYC) data gathered from the Civic secure identity platform (SIP).
2018-6-13 00:23 | |
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