10 for 300 UAH for Blizzard — Ukrainians report unexplained write-offs in favor of game publishers
Attackers are increasingly using the services of well-known companies for cybercrime. This time, Blizzard was used to steal money from the cards of Ukrainian users.
Phishing on behalf of PayPal — hackers use real company emails
It seems that using real company servers is becoming a trend among hackers. Recently ITC.ua wrote about Google, now «in the sights of» PayPal users.
Luxury memecoin Dior collapsed by 99% in less than a day
It looks like, fraudsters switched to presidential coins on the brand. The official Instagram account of Dior, which has 46.8 million followers, suddenly advertised its own «luxury» memecoin on the Solana blockchain called Dior Official Coin. In just a few minutes, hundreds of people bought the token, and its value rose to $0.00099. The trading…
LIBRA and MELANIA turned out to be a scam by the same team
Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) supported the initiative of a college student named EnHeng, who announced his intention to donate $50 thousand and raise additional funds to help to those affected by the collapse of the LIBRA memo.
Bank employees reissued cards of customers from the occupied territories and embezzled ₴5 million
Using access to closed automated systems, bank branch managers in the Lviv region reissued customers’ cards and withdrew money from them.
The world’s first ransomware appeared 35 years ago — it was distributed on 5.25″ floppy disks
In January 1990, an investigation began into a new cybercrime. The ransomware program was contained on floppy disks signed «AIDS Information — Introductory Diskette 2.0».
A pastor sold his own cryptocurrency Solano Fi to his congregation and defrauded them of $5.9 million
The US Department of Justice accused a pastor from Washington state of fraud. He was selling his own cryptocurrency, Solano Fi, to parishioners promising 34.9% annual profit “with no risk.”
You can lose cryptocurrency through comments on YouTube
There’s a new type of crypto scam picking up steam, revolving around multi-signature wallets. Basically, the rule of thumb here is: if it seems sketchy, it probably is. Even crypto newbies know you should never share your secret (seed) phrase with anyone, and always double-check who and what kind of access you’re granting to your wallet…
A phishing site of the popular NFT collection Pudgy Penguins appeared among Google ads
Blockchain security experts at Scam Sniffer discovered a new scam scheme using Google Ads. Following the link redirects users to a fake site of the popular NFT collection Pudgy Penguins. In their post on the X platform, the analysts explained that these ads contain JavaScript code that checks if the user has a crypto wallet. If a wallet is…
Hackers have organized a Christmas hunt for Ledger wallets
Owners of popular Ledger hardware wallets have become targets of phishing attacks. Hackers are sending out fake emails to phish for users’ secret phrases and gain access to their crypto assets.
500 SIM cards and thousands of broken hearts: a group of 792 crypto fraudsters arrested in Nigeria
High-tech crypto hacks are mind-blowing, but good old social engineering methods are still kicking ass. And here’s one of the loudest incidents. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of Nigeria (EFCC) conducted one of the largest anti-corruption operations in the crypto realm. In the Big Leaf Building on Victoria Island (Lagos), 792…
Rapper Drake’s X account hacked to promote fake memecoin
Canadian rapper Drake fell victim to hackers who used his account on the social network X (formerly known as Twitter) to promote a scam meme-coin based on the Solana blockchain. The fraudulent token caught the attention of some of his 39 million followers and managed to reach a trading volume of $5 million before the scam became apparent.
Meme girl Hawk Tuah launches her own token, bankrupting hundreds of people in a few hours
Hey, Haliey Welch, better known as Hawk Tuah Girl, decided to cash in on cryptocurrency too. On December 4th, she launched her own memecoin $HAWK. And it turned out to be a really bad move, which might land her in court.
Scientific blockchain platform Pump Science «lost» key, which immediately fell into the hands of hackers
The decentralized science (DeSci) platform Pump Science has reported about the creation of fake tokens from its Pump.fun account due to a private key leak on GitHub. According to the team, the attacker used this opportunity to create fraudulent coins, including Urolithin from B to E (URO) and Cocaine (COKE).
Cryptocurrency with a taste of madness: what is behind the popularity of memecoins
Recently, well-known analysts and experts have been almost unanimously shouting that the altcoin trend is about to end, and they will be replaced by memoCoins. At least due to a rather long period of stagnation, which made investors pay more attention to risky projects with high potential returns. However, it is believed that meme coins […]
Scam Sniffer detects phishing ads on Google: users can lose all cryptocurrency
The security company Web3 Scam Sniffer reported that while searching for the official Soneium website, experts came across sponsored ads on Google for a fraudulent page, after clicking on it, connecting a wallet and signing a permission, users risked losing all digital assets. Suspicious ads appeared when users searched for the term «someium».
Fraudsters withdrew $5.7M worth EigenLayer tokens shortly after listing
The EigenLayer protocol team, which on October 1 held listing of its own EIGEN token and announced the second season of airdropreported the theft of 1.67 million tokens worth about $5.7 million. The team is conducting an investigation. But it is already known that the incident is not related to the hacking of the project. The assets were mistakenly…
Since the beginning of September, the number of attacks on cryptoplatforms has doubled: research
According to a report by cybersecurity company CertiK, in September 2024, the number of hacker attacks on crypto platforms was twice as high as in the previous month. As a result of exploits, hacks, and fraud, users lost $161.1 million, of which only $2.1 million was recovered.
U.S. Department of Justice shuts down russian money laundering scheme through three crypto exchanges
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) withdrew the domains of three crypto exchanges related to money laundering for the russian federation totaling more than $800 million. According to the press release, UAPS, PM2BTC and Cryptex facilitated illegal transactions. In addition, two Russian citizens have been charged with misappropriating millions of…
Researchers find fake version of WalletConnect on Google Play that steals cryptocurrency
Check Point Research (CPR) team of researchers said about the threat lurking in Google Play for digital asset owners. They found the first known mobile crypto-drainer: the application is disguised as a genuine WalletConnect.
Ex-CEO of Alameda Research sentenced to 2 years for participating in a fraudulent scheme with FTX crypto exchange
On September 24, a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Caroline Ellison, the former head of Alameda Research, the FTX hedge fund, to 2 years in prison and $11 billion in forfeiture.
Ex-banker jailed for 24 years over crypto deal — spent $47 million from bank, daughter’s college and church
In the vain hope of getting rich using cryptocurrencies, the former banker fell for the scam and spent $47 million of the bank’s funds, as well as all available personal and public funds. Now the 53-year-old US man is facing 24 years in prison.
«The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age»: how the most high-profile cyber attacks in history took place
For the past two and a half years, Ukrainians have been aware of cyber threats like no other. In addition to the full-scale war with the Russians, we are also fighting a cyber war. Something is always happening in the swamps: websites are down, important information is disappearing, services are breaking down, and entire systems […]
A Hong Kong-based crypto exchange created Elon Musk’s diplomatic account and advertised him as its chief developer
No, Elon Musk did not create a secret cryptocurrency trading website that Facebook ad bots advise you to invest in. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission last week warned of a fraudulent dipsticks. According to the statement, the group, which calls itself Quantum AI or AI Quantum, is using a fake video of Elon Musk to fool people. The…
Bitcoin trader loses $70 million after sending cryptocurrency to wrong address
This is a popular type of scam with «address poisoning»/ address poisoning — when fraudsters create fake accounts with a fake cryptographic address that contains similar first and last characters to the real one.
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