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ETH accounted for more than three-quarters of the losses. Microstrategy's X account hack remained a big talking point. Hackers stole nearly $47 million through crypto phishing scams in FebrThe post $47M lost to crypto phishing scams in February as victims increase appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2024-3-12 02:30 | |
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February witnessed a significant uptick in crypto phishing scams, culminating in the loss of more than $46.8 million across over 57,000 individual incidents, according to a report by Scam Sniffer. The scams, predominantly orchestrated through fake accounts on social media…
2024-3-11 11:15 | |
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Despite heightened security measures, phishing attacks continued unabated in February, with 57,000 individuals losing $47 million. The post These Crypto Scams Stole $47 Million from 57,000 People in February appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2024-3-11 02:00 | |
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The official blog for Trezor, the world’s first hardware wallet. All you need to keep your digital assets safe. - Medium
2024-2-18 13:03 | |
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Scammers exploit the hype around TREAT token release. Phishing attacks and scams harm victims, raising concerns about trust and SHIB's reputation Shiba Inu's [SHIB] ecosystem has been gaininThe post How Shiba Inu's TREAT is fueling trouble for its community appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2024-2-2 09:30 | |
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FTX has an estimated $8 billion hole in its balance sheet. Investors desperate to get their money back are being targeted by phishing scams.
2022-11-20 20:00 | |
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Phishing scams are increasingly becoming a pain in the arse in the crypto space. Cybercriminals are stepping up their game with one objective: to drain crypto wallets of thousands — if not millions — worth of cryptocurrencies.
2022-10-27 13:49 | |
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During the early hours of October 22, the Gate.io Twitter account was hacked and used to promote phishing scams. The post Gate.io Twitter Account Hacked to Promote Phishing Scam appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-10-23 15:30 | |
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BNB Chain’s Red Alert system flags projects based on obvious features that have been historically used in scams, rug pulls and phishing.
2022-8-15 15:51 | |
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Hackers had access to multiple official social media accounts of the British Army for nearly four hours, when they posted crypto phishing links and scams.
2022-7-4 07:25 | |
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Cybercriminals appear to have found a new soft target for phishing scams and fraud – the metaverse. According to victim accounts, they believed that their investments were secure and legit, primarily owing to the fact that the metaverse is integrated with blockchain tech.
2022-5-31 16:45 | |
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Phishing scams are not new in the digital space, and cybercriminals are increasingly employing them in the crypto space. For example, multiple reports on Friday have revealed that scammers targeted users of crypto data tracking platforms CoinGecko and Etherscan.
2022-5-15 16:18 | |
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The leading NFT marketplace, OpenSea, saw its Discord server hacked to conduct scams. The incident was highlighted by numerous users’ tweets and blockchain security firm, PeckShield. As a result, OpenSea confirmed the action taken against the issue.
2022-5-7 01:47 | |
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The hacker's initial post, which was published in the announcements channel, claimed that OpenSea had “partnered with YouTube to bring their community into the NFT Space."
2022-5-7 14:50 | |
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As the crypto community notices and calls out such scams, the fraudsters tend to turn off replies to their tweets to prevent being exposed as scammers.
2022-5-4 11:54 | |
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NFT traders were rocked by an earthquake on Sunday. Opensea, the vast NFT trading ocean, was the center of a new storm – in the form of a heist. Valuable NFTs were stolen, including Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club assets.
2022-2-22 09:55 | |
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Check Point Research (CPR) has noted several crypto scams in the last few days where wallet users have lost thousands of dollars. The report comes days after a recent token scam on the Squid Game playThe post After Squid Game rug-off, report reveals Google Ads phishing, other scam warnings appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-11-5 12:30 | |
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The Google Threat Analysis Group [TAG] shared a report that noted an ongoing phishing campaign against the creators on YouTube. This exploit resulted in the sale of the channel to the highest bidder oThe post Crypto scams live-streamed as YouTube channels face phishing attacks appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-10-24 16:30 | |
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Like scams and rug pulls in the DeFi, the NFT market also experiences a few hacks every now and then. Last night, the Creature Toadz NFT collection got scammed by a hacker who used a phishing webhook to create an operational error in the discord server.
2021-10-20 19:24 | |
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Avast , a global leader in digital security and privacy, has observed in the first six months of 2021 that cryptocurrency-focused phishing scams are more...
2021-7-14 20:10 | |
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The cryptocurrency hardware wallet firm Ledger was hacked last June and over a million emails were exposed, according to reports from the company at the time. Months later, the hackers who obtained the Ledger data emailed clients, sent texts to customers, and created phishing links for users to enter their seeds.
2020-12-14 15:30 | |
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It finally happened: hackers are using promises of Covid-19 vaccines to steal your information. There is a notable increase in alleged dark web vaccine advertisements in the past few days according to published research from Check Point and KnowBe4.
2020-12-12 21:27 | |
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Even though wallet operators have a large role to play in protecting funds, customers also need to educate themselves to avoid phishing scams.
2020-11-12 19:48 | |
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Crypto scams and attacks are on the rise once again as the broader sector breaks out of a nearly three-year-long bear market. The post 1.1m XRP stolen in phishing scam on crypto wallet Ledger lookalike appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-11-9 11:25 | |
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Phishing scams targeting crypto users seem to be far from over as per an update by XRP Forensics, which says close to 1,150,000 XRP tokens have been stolen in a new scam. This particular one targeted Ledger wallet users and went to the length of sending security update emails to unsuspecting XRP token holders.
2020-11-7 20:58 | |
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Following July’s hack-turned-Bitcoin-scam, Twitter has implemented new policies and training to prevent a shutdown of their worldwide service. On July 15, 2020, Parag Agrawal, Twitter chief technology officer, began hearing about phishing scams around the company’s offices.
2020-9-25 22:34 | |
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Brave privacy browser is further enhancing the security of its users with the integration of anti-phishing solutions from PhishFort, a cybersecurity firm that offers open-source tech to eliminate phishing scams on Web3.
2020-9-9 15:27 | |
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Google searches recently displayed results and ads for at least three phishing schemes masquerading as the Uniswap decentralized exchange. BeinCrypto Russia discovered that the world’s most popular search engine was showing results for (and even advertising) scams pretending to be the Uniswap platform.
2020-8-6 12:10 | |
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Twitter has identified that their recent hack was a result of phone spear phishing. Hackers caused chaos after temporarily gaining access to internal tools. The Scope A Thursday morning blog post update from Twitter informed the public about the recent hack that saw high-profile user accounts compromised with run-of-the-mill Bitcoin scams.
2020-8-1 19:56 | |
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CoinCorner reports that Google Ads is running a phishing ad despite the firm being unable to use its service.
2020-5-1 23:30 | |
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The operators of cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes are not immune to falling prices, but phishing and blackmailing scams are on the rise
2020-4-11 18:27 | |
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Ledger, the company behind popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets like the Nano S and the Nano X, has revealed that users are facing phishing attacks that are originating from hacked YouTube accounts.
2020-1-28 10:11 | |
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As this decade inches to a close, Poloniex becomes the next cryptocurrency exchange to mismanage user data after “someone leaked” email addresses and passwords. Poloniex Forces Users to Reset Passwords After rampant scams and phishing attempts, Poloniex customers were rightly cautious over the email they received from the cryptocurrency exchange on Dec 30.
2019-12-31 16:19 | |
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CryptoScamDB is a database that currently houses records of 6500+ known scams across Ethereum, Bitcoin, XRP, NEO, and many more chains. They were originally known as EtherScamDB. Currently, their data shows that there are over 6,800 scams and there has been a sharp increase since the beginning of the year. Phishing; fraud; theft; hacking all […]
2019-7-20 19:34 | |
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According to a June 21, 2019, article by local crime news outlet Posta, Israeli police has arrested two brothers named Eli Gigi and Assaf Gigi on the suspicion of partaking in cryptocurrency phishing attacks and getting involved in the infamous 2016 Bitfinex hack.
2019-6-24 23:00 | |
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With the growth of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets in recent years, so has the number of hacks. As the volume of threats increases, so does the need for the right tools to identify and take preventative measures.
2019-6-24 12:27 | |
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Two Israeli brothers have reportedly been arrested for allegedly hacking the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange and engaging in other crypto-related phishing scams
2019-6-24 20:26 | |
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Several major cryptocurrency traders have reportedly begun discussing plans to enact an industry-wide blacklist of suspicious actors, to stem the tide of scams, theft and fraud in the crypto space.
2019-5-10 15:52 | |
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It is very common in the digital asset sphere to have cases of different types of scams regularly. The latest of such crypto scams that has got the attention of everyone in the cryptocurrency community is a social media attack on the Jibrel Wallet.
2019-5-9 00:08 | |
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Chinese crypto exchange Binance suffered a major hack on Tuesday, which the company’s CEO responded to by proposing a rollback of the Bitcoin blockchain to rectify — a suggestion that riled up the community.
2019-5-8 21:39 | |
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Hackers have been plaguing the cryptocurrency world for quite some time, often going through phishing schemes or similar scams. Cryptojacking, for example, is a process that involves hacking into a computer to mine Bitcoin without the user even knowing.
2019-4-30 19:59 | |
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CryptoNinjas Binance Labs, the venture arm of crypto exchange company Binance, announced today it has invested in PhishFort, a tool which protects high-risk companies, such as crypto exchanges, ICOs, and token platforms, from phishing attacks and scams.
2019-4-29 14:20 | |
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The cryptocurrency market has had their share of scams through the years, with hackers attacking at every single weak point they can find. Hackers have plagued this nascent industry frequently, and a recent report from Malwarebytes Labs says that one of the recent groups of victims is that of the users of the Electrum Bitcoin […]
2019-4-17 23:56 | |
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If you are new to the crypto space or if you are exploring new services and platforms, protection from scams and malicious websites should be a priority. Cryptonite is a useful browser extension that protects your private information and warns you in advance about risks to your crypto security.
2019-4-14 13:15 | |
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In the world of cryptocurrencies, tokens, and assets, there is no shortage of potential scams. Not necessarily in the form of new projects coming up, but more due to enthusiasts being targeted by criminals for various purposes.
2019-4-12 11:13 | |
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Phishing scams have always plagued the crypto ecosystem. Last year saw the entry of a new breed of cyber-extortionists that seems to be gaining ground, so much so that they were able to steal over $300,000 in Bitcoin (BTC) tokens in 2018.
2019-4-9 20:47 | |
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Phishing scams are the bane of a good day. What better way to wake up than reading an email saying your credit card has been stolen? How about an email asking for bitcoin to keep you out of jail? Don’t you love phishing scams? There’s a new, particularly nasty crypto-related scam floating around, and it very well may ruin your life, quite literally, if you don’t pay attention.
2019-4-8 11:10 | |
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Phishing is a type of cyber attack that often appears in an email, unbeknownst to the recipient. Many phishing scams have gotten quite good at making the recipient believe that the email is from a reliable source and that it contains information that is useful to them. Once the user opens the email, clicks on […]
2019-4-8 00:58 | |
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Crypto phishing scams are becoming one of the most profitable methods for cybercriminals to steal your cryptocurrency. Phishing for Crypto Cybercrime exists because it’s profitable. You might think the efforts of malicious actors are petty or trivial when you delete obvious scam emails from your inbox, but every so often, one of them works — and it makes money for the bad guys.
2019-4-6 14:00 | |
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