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Inferno Drainer, one of the most popular crypto wallet-draining kits for hire says it is shutting down for good after helping phishing scammers steal nearly $70 million worth of crypto this year. In a Nov. 26 Telegram post, the team behind Inferno Drainer said it was “time for us to move o ...

Numerous users of the crypto analytics platform Nansen have received phishing emails from scammers pitching an “exclusive opportunity” to participate in the fictitious “Nansen Airdrop.”On Nov. 23, crypto community members on X (formerly Twitter) flagged an ongoing p ...

Users of the major nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea have said they are being targeted with a new email phishing attack, and have received emails containing malicious links from attackers posing as the marketplace itself.According to social media reports, OpenSea users and develo ...

A new phishing scam has emerged in China that uses a fake Skype video app to target crypto usersAs per a report by crypto security analytic firm SlowMist, the Chinese hackers behind the phishing scam used China’s ban on international applications as the basis of their scam, as several main ...

Almost $600,000 in Bitcoin (BTC) has been stolen from users who downloaded a fake Ledger Live application on Microsoft’s app store, according to cryptocurrency sleuth ZachXBT.The on-chain analyst spotted the scam, “Ledger Live Web3” on Nov. 5, which is tricking users into ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex said it suffered a “minor” information security incident after one of its customer support agents was hacked earlier in the week (Oct. 30 — Nov. 5).It led to a spree of phishing attacks against Bitfinex users but little damage was done, th ...

To track down and counter the sudden disappearance of tokens from crypto wallets requires investors to know the various ways bad actors use to steal cryptocurrencies successfully. Blockchain investigator Bitrace has identified three effective ways hackers gain access to crypto in ...

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Trezor is investigating a recent phishing campaign, as users have reported receiving phishing emails.The anonymous blockchain sleuth ZachXBT took to his Telegram channel on Oct. 26 to alert users to a phishing attack targeting Trezor custom ...

Phishing scammers have cloned the websites of crypto media outlet Blockworks and Ethereum blockchain scanner Etherscan to trick unsuspecting readers into connecting their wallets to a crypto drainer.A fake Blockworks site displays a fake “BREAKING” news report of a supposed mul ...

In September 2023, crypto-related exploits reached an unfortunate peak, making it the worst month of the year so far in terms of cryptocurrency theft, with a staggering $329.8 million in digital assets stolen. Blockchain security firm CertiK reported on October 2 that the most significant contrib ...

The Balancer team has stated that a social engineering attack on its domain registrar, EuroDNS, was responsible for the compromise of its website's frontend on September 19. This incident resulted in an estimated $238,000 in cryptocurrency being stolen. Balancer DAO actively addressed the DNS att ...

Creditors of the troubled crypto lender Celsius Network are facing an increased risk of phishing attacks as the lender's bankruptcy proceedings near their conclusion. Reports on social media have indicated a rise in phishing attacks by scammers pretending to be Stretto, the bankruptcy services pl ...

"Did Binance Accidentally Facilitate a Scam? $240,000 Sent to Suspected Phishing Address A recent Etherscan transaction, spotlighted by blockchain security firm PeckShield, has revealed that Binance's "Hot Wallet 7" transferred a substantial $240,000 worth of USDC to an address ominously l ...

A cryptocurrency whale has fallen victim to a massive phishing attack, losing millions of dollars in staked Ethereum on the liquid staking provider Rocket Pool.A large cryptocurrency investor lost the entire address balance of Lido Staked ETH (stETH) and Rocket Pool ETH (rETH) due to a phi ...

Crypto scams targeting MetaMask users are using government-owned website URLs to con victims and access their crypto wallet holdings.Ethereum-based crypto wallet MetaMask has been a long-standing target for scammers — which involves redirecting unwary users to fabricated websites tha ...

With the field of artificial intelligence evolving at near breakneck speed, scammers now have access to tools that can help them execute highly sophisticated attacks en masse, warns the co-founder of Web3 security firm Quantstamp.Speaking to Cointelegraph at Korea Blockchain Week, Quantsta ...

The X (Twitter) account of crypto-focused venture capital firm Blockchain Capital was seemingly taken over by scammers attempting to lure users with the promise of a token claim.On Aug. 9, Blockchain Capital’s account made multiple posts promising a giveaway of “BCAP” tokens and directed u ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned of criminal actors that are hijacking social media accounts and posing as legitimate people in the nonfungible token and crypto space. It also raised concerns over spoof websites that dupe victims into thinking they are using legitimate platfo ...

Four major crypto drainers have emerged to fill the vacuum left by the notorious wallet sweeper Monkey Drainer, with thousands of victims targeted and millions in crypto stolen already this year. The crypto drainers — called Pink Drainer, Inferno Drainer, Pussy Drainer, and Venom Dra ...

Scammers appear to have wasted no time since the launch of Meta’s new microblogging app — with several high-profile Crypto Twitter users already warning of imposter accounts on Threads. Threads was launched on July 5 and has seen sign-ups climb above 98 million in the days foll ...

Hackers continue their relentless attacks, displaying no signs of slowing down. Shortly after the Multichain hack, scammers started spreading a phishing link on Twitter.The fraudulent distribution of Fantom (FTM) to users — falsely linked to the Multichain attack — is rapidly s ...

Over the past few weeks, a group of scammers has hijacked more than eight Twitter accounts belonging to prominent figures in the crypto space to promote phishing scams. The group has stolen almost $1 million worth of crypto so far, according to blockchain sleuth ZachXBT. In a June 9 Twitte ...

ScamSniffer, a platform dedicated to detecting fraudulent activity online, has recently reported that users have lost more than $4 million in just one month as a result of falling prey to cryptocurrency phishing scams. The creators of these malicious sites have been utilizing Google Ads, a contex ...