2019-12-4 14:54 |
A new and hard-to-detect macOS malware variant has been discovered lurking on a fake cryptocurrency trading site.
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Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance cryptocurrency exchange, has vowed to sue The Block Crypto, a cryptocurrency news website for reporting that Binance’s office in Shanghai was shut down abruptly after a police raid.
2019-11-24 22:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency giveaway scams are nothing new. Fraudsters have been known in the past to impersonate the likes of Elon Musk or Vitalik Buterin to con unwitting victims. And now, just days after its launch, we are seeing crypto con artists impersonate Bitcoin futures platform Bakkt.
2019-9-26 10:43 | |
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A new crypto scam has appeared. According to Cointelegraph, this new scam uses fake articles to advertise a non-existent platform and uses the names of several famous people such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Richard Branson.
2019-9-24 23:05 | |
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When new crypto or digital currency projects are announced it doesn’t take long for scams to follow. It appears that Telegram’s supposedly incoming TON token is the latest to be exploited by opportunistic scammers.
2019-9-20 15:25 | |
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the most important regulator of the country, has recently discovered a new Bitcoin scam. This new scam is using fake claims from the country’s former Prime Minister in order to convince investors to give them their money.
2019-8-1 22:51 | |
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CoinMarketCap, the biggest crypto data aggregator most people in the cryptospace refer to, had been accused by The TIE of allowing exchanges to report fake trading volumes. However, the data site has tried to clean up its act since, noted Joshua Frank, CEO of The TIE, in an interview with Dawid Paluch.
2019-7-13 02:30 | |
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The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has an interesting new tactic in the war on fake news: make more of it. A team of researchers at the institute recently developed Grover, a neural network capable of generating fake news articles in the style of actual human journalists.
2019-6-25 00:49 | |
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A British Bitcoin scammer has admitted to a con that duped people, all over the world, out of $50 million. In US courts last week, the perpetrator, identified as 50-year old Renwick Haddow, admitted to running a fake Bitcoin trading platform that defrauded hundreds of investors form around the globe.
2019-6-18 12:41 | |
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Police Arrest Cryptocurrency Entrepreneur After Allegedly Conducting Fraudulent Activities According to a recent report released by De Gelderlander, Dutch police have arrested a former entrepreneur after allegedly conducting fraudulent activities.
2019-5-21 21:28 | |
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Can CoinMarketCap (CMC) continue to be our go-to site in order to understand the crypto market? After a recent report published by Bitwise, which affirmed that 95% of all the Bitcoin volume in the market was actually fake, a lot of people are dismissing CMC as a valid way to measure the market. This made […]
2019-5-7 23:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges around the world have been accused of having faked volumes in order to rank better in sites such as CoinMarketCap. In the same site, the “Reported” and “Adjusted” volumes also differ.
2019-5-5 20:12 | |
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I’m sitting at my laptop. The year is 2019, but the website I’m visiting feels oddly out of this time. It could’ve been built in the early days of the internet – or in a dystopian future where humans are desperately trying to resuscitate our once-thriving digital culture.
2019-4-24 17:01 | |
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Travis J. Iles, the Securities Commissioner of Texas, isn’t taking any guff from a site called FxBitGlobe. Iles issued an “emergency” cease and desist order to FxBitGlobe, ordering them to quit attempting to do business with anyone in the great State of Texas.
2019-4-10 19:37 | |
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Coinspeaker CoinMarketCap Admits Fake Crypto Volume Allegations, Plans for a New Set of ToolsCrypto price aggregator CoinMarketCap says it plans to make a number of changes to address concerns that the site reports fake volume for Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and more than 2,000 altcoins.
2019-3-26 15:40 | |
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A fake version of Wasabi wallet, probably designed to steal bitcoins, has emerged online at wasabibitcoinwallet. org. (Don’t visit that site. ) Wasabi Lead Developer Exposes Fake Website According to Wasabi developer nopara73 (the only confirmed identity he has), the site is only trying to assault Windows users.
2019-3-22 23:40 | |
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Watch out! Wasabi, the popular anonymizing Bitcoin wallet, has been been duped in an apparent bid to steal your Bitcoin — and the ruse comes complete with an entirely phony website. Wasabi’s co-founder, nopara73, shared the discovery this morning: “The first malware that pretends to be Wasabi […].
2019-3-21 14:34 | |
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A site called TheTie released a report today that estimates over 86% of all reported Bitcoin exchange volume is suspicious, while 75% of exchanges report extremely dubious volumes. The research uses a different formula than other reports have: it values each website’s visitors and compares that value to the reported figures.
2019-3-19 23:53 | |
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Facebook’s used its machine learning prowess to filter hate speech and fake accounts— but now it’s turning its focus on fighting revenge porn. In an announcement last week, the company said that it’s introducing new technology to remove non-consensual intimate photos and videos off its platform.
2019-3-18 15:12 | |
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Hello, welcome to yet another episode of the “thisdoesntexist” AI experiment. A clever developer has harness the power of AI to make a site that generates non-existent Airbnb’s that look almost like the real thing.
2019-2-25 16:03 | |
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The document dump site calls out Craig Wright for forging documents. But Wright says that's just fake news.
2019-2-13 22:10 | |
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A fake news site has allegedly used images of former Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key to promoting crypto-currency. The advertisement was designed for a company called Crypto Revolt. The most recent article, which appeared on social media in recent days, includes an image of the former New Zealand PM and falsely claims he’s […]
2019-1-7 11:11 | |
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The image of New Zealand’s former prime minister has been employed to promote an alleged cryptocurrency scam
2019-1-7 17:17 | |
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After a deluge of fake news began to overwhelm Facebook, it got proactive. The social media platform tapped bi-partisan organizations, such as Snopes, to fact-check content on the platform and use their expertise to combat the spread of misinformation.
2018-12-14 05:53 | |
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As the Bitcoin SV network gathered supporters, a fake mining pool site offered hashing power in exchange for Bitcoin (BTC).
2018-12-12 19:55 | |
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Update 2:23PM ET: Well, that was fast. Rozetked has informed us it now believes the leak is fake. What follows is the original post. By all indications, the PlayStation 5 is not supposed to arrive until 2020, but that isn’t stopping the internet from doing its thing.
2018-11-28 20:10 | |
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Infowars is best known as the fake news platform used by beetroot-red nutjob Alex Jones to spout wild conspiracies and defame grieving parents. But did you also know it boasts an online store where you can buy vitamins, “neutraceuticals,” and garish right-wing t-shirts? I mention the retail bit because, according to ZDNet and Dutch security researcher, Willem de Groot, it was recently the site of a particularly nasty Magecart infection, which hoovered up the details of roughly 1,600 customers.
2018-11-14 12:59 | |
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If you hate random popups or fake system warnings on a website, don’t worry – Chrome’s got you covered. The Google-owned browser’s next version, Chrome 71, will block all ads on a website if it provides an “abusive” experience.
2018-11-6 14:25 | |
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Elon Musk’s company has paused the sales of “not flamethrowers,” suggesting the renewed offer may be a scam.
2018-10-19 13:10 | |
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Jacinda Arden, Prime Minister of New Zealand has had her face used by a fake news site in order to promote articles aimed at Facebook to encourage a crypto startup. A local media source, ‘Stuff’ reported on Friday that multiple sponsored posts have recently been promoted on Facebook by using the likeness of the New Zealand PM with headlines such as New Investment Plan For Kiwis which were targeted at several different age groups around the country.
2018-10-12 16:30 | |
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A fake news site used images of New Zealand's prime minister in sponsored posts on Facebook to promote a bitcoin firm.
2018-10-12 11:20 | |
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EOS Black, a dApp development initiative, has reported the existence of a website that is attempting to steal private keys by impersonating the official site. The real EOS Black site is located at eosblack.
2018-10-11 03:32 | |
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WhatsApp has appointed a ‘grievance officer’ to address complaints concerning the spread of fake news and misinformation on its platform in India, reports the Press Trust of India on NDTV. This comes in response to the government’s demands from earlier in the year, following a nationwide string of lynchings believed to be incited by false information shared on WhatsApp.
2018-9-24 10:36 | |
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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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Facebook revealed this week it’s trying to stem the flow of fake news by assigning trust values to users. It insists on keeping its criteria for trustworthiness secret though, in case untrustworthy people try to game the system — and they almost certainly will.
2018-8-21 20:17 | |
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Two well-meaning Facebook vigilantes are in a battle against scam accounts, and Facebook‘s response seems to be “Yeah, good job. Now keep doing it. ” Kathy Kostrub-Waters and Bryan Denny are spending some of their precious free time finding fake accounts on the site — not the kind created by Russian trolls during the fake news blitz a few years ago, but the kind that use stolen photos to convince lonely hearts to send money to people they’ve never met.
2018-8-16 21:24 | |
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A war between Bitcoin loyalists and Bitcoin Cash enthusiasts has reached new levels as tension escalates on consumer review site Trustpilot. Bitcoin loyalists have ranked Bitcoin.com a low one star for being an “infamous fake” website, while those loyal to Bitcoin Cash noted that the website is “amazing” and that Roger Ver has done much […] Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Feud Reaches New Levels on TrustPilot was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
2018-8-8 18:59 | |
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Indonesian cryptocurrency exchange Indodax is the latest to fall victim to a hack, resulting in the theft of approximately $22 million in digital assets. Indodax Pauses Platform Operations Due To Security Breach According to a post by blockchain security firm SlowMist on X, the hackers stole digital assets such as Bitcoin (BTC), multiple ERC-20 tokens […]
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Британская компания NFT Investments объявила о потере активов на $250 000. Компания заявила, что ее специалисты зафиксировали «мошенническую фишинговую атаку из неизвестного внешнего источника».
North Korean hackers are reportedly using untraceable altcoins to convert stolen cryptocurrencies into cash.
A cybersecurity firm has warned hacking group Lazarus is developing sophisticated new techniques to steal cryptocurrencies from victims.
The cryptocurrency industry has been likened to the Wild West, when bandits robbed banks, taverns, and coaches for gold,… The post Study Shows One Hacker Group Is Responsible For More Than Half of Crypto Hacks Since 2017 — Who Are They? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.