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Venus Protocol user fell victim to a phishing attack, prompting the DeFi platform to pause trading.
2025-9-2 17:33 | |
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Ledger users are under attack and targeted by a phishing scam (here is a link to understand the anatomy of a phishing attack). Kraken Security Lab has done a great job at describing what’s going on and we appreciate their help in this matter.
2020-11-11 19:46 | |
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Since October 19th, our clients have been targeted by aggressive and elaborate phishing attacks (link to article Anatomy of a phishing attack) through emailing and text message campaigns. Our team is working diligently to stop the scammers and restore faith within the community.
2020-11-10 13:55 | |
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Chief Security Officer at cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, Nicholas J. Percoco alerted users today about a scam that was targeting crypto users, which involved a homograph phishing attack and “multiThe post Kraken sounds the alarm for a phishing attack targeting its users appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-17 20:00 | |
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Two new Bitcoin hacks have surfaced recently, showing the Electrum wallet still appears to be troubled by phishing efforts.
2020-9-7 09:58 | |
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Blockchain and cryptocurrency professionals on LinkedIn are under a new phishing threat that’s targeting them disguised as crypto-related job offers advertised on the platform. A new report by Finland-based Cyber Security Firm F-secure has linked the attack to one of the most infamous and allegedly State-backed North Korean hacking group, Lazarus, which targets organizations globally […]
2020-8-26 15:56 | |
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Imagine falling foul of a phishing attack that stole a significant portion of your crypto savings, only to discover that a good Samaritan had returned it to you out of the goodness of their heart.
2020-7-3 21:16 | |
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In a tragic event, Eric Savics, the host of the ”Protocol Podcast” lost all his bitcoin savings — 12 BTC worth over $100k — that he accumulated over 7 years in a hardware phishing attack. “I had all of my Bitcoin stolen from me in a hardware wallet phishing scam.
2020-6-14 19:29 | |
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A man has taken to Twitter to air his story after he apparently fell victim to a phishing attack. In a video that has since attracted the attention of many crypto enthusiasts, one Eric Savics says he lost 12 Bitcoins in the attack that has now threatened his dream of buying his own apartment. Appeal […]
2020-6-14 18:28 | |
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On the morning of December 13th, New Orleans officials have reported suspicious activities that are more related to phishing. The attack came 3 hours later, shutting down the computers and servers that have been affected.
2019-12-16 21:03 | |
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Binance assists British police in an investigation of a $51 million phishing attack
2019-9-28 22:39 | |
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Coinbase U.K. settled a lawsuit with a man who lost 80 Bitcoins in an email phishing attack
2019-9-12 03:40 | |
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Researchers have uncovered a new kind of “advanced” phishing attack targeting Android phones that can trick users into installing malicious settings on their devices that are disguised as innocuous network configuration updates.
2019-9-4 16:00 | |
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Litecoin users on Binance fell victim to a large scale dust attack earlier this week, alarming the crypto community about this new type of malicious attack. While they’re not nearly as dangerous as phishing, knowing what dust attacks are can help people protect themselves and their crypto assets from danger.
2019-8-16 02:43 | |
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Coinbase’s security team has revealed that it managed to stop a complex phishing attack that sought to extract user private keys and passwords. In an official blog post the crypto exchange giant revealed that the incident involved the exploitation of two 0-day vulnerabilities on the Mozilla Firefox browser. According to the blog post, the first […]
2019-8-9 21:17 | |
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Крупнейшая американская криптовалютная компания Coinbase сообщила об «изощренной, целенаправленной, продуманной атаке», которая могла позволить хакерам получить доступ к ее системам и средствам на миллиарды долларов.
2019-8-10 16:17 | |
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Крупнейшая американская криптовалютная компания Coinbase сообщила об «изощренной, целенаправленной, продуманной атаке», которая могла позволить хакерам получить доступ к ее системам и средствам на миллиарды долларов.
2019-8-9 15:35 | |
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Coinbase’s response team has revealed how it countered a sophisticated phishing attack aiming to exfiltrate private keys and passwords
2019-8-9 13:48 | |
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The Maryland Department of Labor announced that a security flaw in its databases may have exposed the sensitive and personal data of around 78,000 people. The agency commented that the breach occurred earlier this year after nine employees fell victim to what cybersecurity experts call a phishing attack.
2019-7-7 20:30 | |
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Security Researcher Uncovers Clever Phishing Attack On Binance Users One of the major issues affecting the cryptocurrency industry and a major hindrance to its popularity is lack of security. Cryptocurrency exchanges have been targeted in hacks that have led to the loss of billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. However, it seems the attackers are […]
2019-6-3 22:31 | |
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North Korean hacking group, “Kim-Soo-ki,” have allegedly orchestrated a phishing attack targeting users of South Korean cryptocurrency trading venue, UpBit, in a bid to steal their bitcoin, according to a report by The Next Web on May 31, 2019.
2019-6-1 01:00 | |
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North Korean hackers have made a phishing attempt on users of the South Korean crypto exchange Upbit. News correspondents in Korea broke this development on May 29, 2019, detailing the ploy to steal Upbit users’ information.
2019-6-1 00:54 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has revealed that it will be revamping its security network to prevent a recurrence of the 7,000 BTC hack it experienced on May 78, 2019.
2019-5-11 19:59 | |
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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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Binance has experienced a sophisticated attack of user accounts through phishing, viruses and other malware, with 7,000 BTC withdrawn from their hot wallet by hackers. Changpeng Zhao, Binance’s CEO, said...
2019-5-8 12:19 | |
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Ledger, a crypto wallet startup, tweeted Friday, April 25, 2019, that they have detected a malware that could possibly replace the Ledger Live desktop application with a malicious one. “Only” a Phishing Attack After detecting the malware that had affected their systems, Ledger was quick to warn its users through their tweet.
2019-4-29 21:00 | |
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Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.
2019-4-27 22:07 | |
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Cybersecurity incidents are gaining an increasingly high profile. In the past, these incidents may have been perceived primarily as a somewhat distant issue for organizations such as banks to deal with.
2019-4-25 14:41 | |
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The stormy and successful activity of Binance since the beginning of the year could not but cause opposition from competitors. It appeared quite unexpectedly – in a form of phishing attack on users of the exchange.
2019-4-15 22:40 | |
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On 9 April 2019, the United States Attorney’s District of Connecticut office released an official statement about a man imprisoned for stealing Bitcoins in “dark web phishing scheme. ” The man in question was identified to be Micheal Richo, from New Haven and formerly Wallingford.
2019-4-11 02:30 | |
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Electrum servers are still under a sustained Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The wallet developers announced the issue on April 7, 2018. In correspondence with Bitcoin Magazine, Electrum developer Thomas Voegtlin speculated that the attack may be a form of retaliation from a phishing attacker who has been targeting Electrum in recent weeks.
2019-4-11 21:47 | |
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Millions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin has reportedly been taken in an attack that could, ironically, be in retaliation for Electrum’s recent crackdown on phishing. Users are urged to only download Electrum software and updates from the electrum.org domain and its official Github repository.
2019-4-10 22:06 | |
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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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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
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Be wary if you come across ads that promote an airdrop, distributing tokens for popular cryptocurrency exchange desk Huobi: the offer might be fake, and you might be getting swooped into an elaborate ploy designed to steal your coins.
2019-3-15 14:45 | |
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There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
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Cryptocurrency, Hacks, Scams–On a day when crypto prices traded sideways, with little change in valuation to start the second month of the year, two of cryptocurrency’s more popular wallets have reported experiencing phishing attacks.
2019-2-6 05:18 | |
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CoinSpeaker Bitcoin Trading Platform LocalBitcoins Hacked with Thousands of Dollars Stolen LocalBitcoins has become a victim of a phishing attack. At least six users have been affected after following a link to a fake LocalBitcoins page.
2019-1-28 13:27 | |
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The popular peer-to-peer trading site LocalBitcoins has reportedly experienced a significant attack and theft. At 10:00 UTC on January 26, the site’s administrators detected an issue that allowed an attacker to gain access to various user accounts.
2019-1-28 23:23 | |
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The popular peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin trading platform LocalBitcoins has been accessed by “an unauthorized source,” the platform confirmed, which was caused by a third-party feature vulnerability.
2019-1-27 21:00 | |
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Users of the peer-to-peer OTC Bitcoin trading service LocalBitcoins have been targeted by cyber criminals as part of a phishing scam, resulting in the user’s Bitcoin being stolen. Forum users were being redirected to a phishing site, which was prompting the users to input two-factor authentication codes that were used to access user accounts and empty.
2019-1-26 16:37 | |
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My Online Security, a UK-based cybersecurity website has discovered a spoofing attack which masquerades as the BBC‘s website, and redirects users to an affiliate bitcoin generation page and phishing platform, Security Intelligence reports on January 15.
2019-1-17 20:00 | |
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In this edition of The Daily, a video gamer streaming on Twitch has received crypto donations totaling over $70,000 and a hacker believed to be behind the 51 percent attack on the Ethereum Classic blockchain has reportedly returned $100,000 in ETC coins.
2019-1-14 14:15 | |
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Popular cryptocurrency wallet Electrum is in the midst of an ongoing hack which saw almost $1 million in Bitcoin stolen so far, Reddit users discovered on December 27, 2018. 250 BTC Stolen in Electrum Wallet Hack It seems that hackers aren’t lying idle during Christmas time, as a popular cryptocurrency wallet has reportedly experienced one of the largest thefts of.
2018-12-30 00:00 | |
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Electrum hacker stole 245 BTC Electrum wallet was yesterday compromised by a malicious phishing attack, which we wrote about yesterday. New details about this hack emerged today as the potential address of the hacker was revealed, alongside his potential loot.
2018-12-29 02:55 | |
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A major vulnerability has been exposed in Electrum, a leading Bitcoin wallet with several forks that are compatible with other cryptocurrencies. This is the second Electrum bug in a single year, and the crypto community is now debating the merits of the wallet.
2018-12-29 23:09 | |
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If you’ve been buying the dip, you may want to brush up on good security. Crypto wallets are being targeted by cybercriminals, most recently with a phishing attack on the popular Electrum software wallet.
2018-12-28 18:24 | |
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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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A growing share of information driving crypto markets comes not from journalists, but from paid press releases. A Chainstory analysis of 2,893 crypto press releases published between June and November 2025 shows that these distribution networks operate as a parallel news market, capable of shaping sentiment and temporarily moving prices, even before verification occurs.
Peter Steinberger, the creator of the open-source AI assistant ClawdBot, has publicly rejected any association with crypto. This is after scammers hijacked his online identity to promote fake token projects.
A major crypto scandal has emerged in the US, implicating John Daghita, known online as “Lick,” in the alleged theft of over $40 million from government seizure addresses. The incident is tied to Daghita’s father, who heads CMDSS, a Virginia-based IT firm awarded a 2024 contract to assist the US Marshals Service (USMS) with managing The post $40 Million Crypto Heist Allegedly Linked to US Government Contractor’s Son appeared first on BeInCrypto.
A worrying pattern has formed in the crypto sector. Reports say that about four in five projects hit by major hacks do not fully recover. Money is lost, yes. But the deeper damage is often to trust — and that can be fatal.
According to Chainalysis’s estimates, crypto-related scams and fraudulent activity may have caused over $17 billion in losses in 2025 The blockchain data firm also highlighted a concerning trend, as scammers are increasingly turning to impersonation schemes to deceive unsuspecting users.
Coinbase said a former customer support agent was arrested in India as investigators probe a breach tied to insider bribery and customer data theft. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said on Dec.
India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) has carried out coordinated raids at 21 locations across Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Delhi as part of a widening probe into a large-scale crypto scam that allegedly operated for nearly a decade.