FBI: Cryptocurrency scammers are most active during the holidays
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning that cryptocurrency scammers are most active during the holidays, when people feel especially lonely. Public relations specialist Frank Fisher said that criminals are increasingly using the so-called "pig butchering" scheme, when a frau ...
Mango Markets hacker arrested on fraud charges
The hacker behind the Mango Markets decentralized exchange exploit that caused $110 million in damages has been arrested in Puerto Rico on charges of market manipulation and fraud. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) accused Abraham Eisenberg of knowingly and intentionally participating in a ...
Kaspersky Lab: North Korean hackers posing as venture capital companies
Kaspersky Lab reported that the hacker group Lazarus has an offshoot of BlueNoroff, posing as venture capitalists who are interested in cryptocurrency startups. North Korean hackers Lazarus have expanded their operations and are posing as venture capitalists who allegedly intend to invest in crypto ...
Truecaller: Phone scammers have become more active in defrauding crypto investors
Criminals are actively monitoring the changing situation in the cryptocurrency industry in order to develop new schemes to deceive investors. Clayton LiaBraaten, senior executive adviser at phone security company Truecaller, said professional phone scammers have targeted cryptocurrencies following ...
BTC, ETH and XRP: Bullish Breakout for the New Year!
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are trading inside bullish patterns, XRP has already broken out of its channel and is moving towards $0.38 support. During this time, the price tried unsuccessfully to break through the $16,940 resistance area three times (red icons). Combined with horizontal resist ...
Shiba Inu forecast for January: what will determine the future trend
Shiba Inu (SHIB) price may make a bullish breakout from a short-term pattern, but the direction of the longer-term trend is still unclear Shiba Inu is approaching support According to the results of technical analysis, the Shiba Inu project coin has been declining since August 14, remaining below t ...
BTC.com Mining Pool Reports $3 Million Hack
Large mining pool BTC.com reported a hack that gave hackers access to pool and client funds. The total loss amounted to about $3 million. BIT Mining, which owns the pool, reported that the hackers managed to withdraw $700,000 of client assets, and lost $2.3 million of their own funds. incident. The ...
BitKeep Wallet Lost $8 Million in Crypto Assets Due to Exploit
Analyst firm PeckShield reported that BitKeep, a decentralized cryptocurrency wallet, suffered from an exploit that resulted in the attackers stealing about $8 million worth of crypto assets. According to PeckShield analysts, the hacker stole 4,373 BNB, 5.4 million USDT, 196,000 DAI and 1,233.21 ET ...
North Korean hackers created over 500 phishing domains to steal NFTs
SlowMist, a blockchain security company, has published a report in which it presented data on phishing attacks on cryptocurrency wallets over the past few months. North Korean hacker group Lazarus targeted non-fungible token (NFT) investors' wallets - attackers used more than 500 phishing addre ...
What will be the first quarter of 2023 for the crypto market: opinions
The editors of BeInCrypto asked experienced experts to predict the movement of the cryptocurrency market in the first quarter of 2023. We tell you what, in the opinion of our interlocutors, investors should prepare for. The beginning of the thaw Vladislav Akeliev, director of development of the ECO ...