Tag: CryptoCurrency

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns that victims of various fraud schemes are increasingly asked by criminals to use cryptocurrency ATMs and Quick Response (QR) codes, making it harder to recover their financial losses. […]

​Threat actors are using advertisements in Google Search to promote fake cryptocurrency wallets and DEX platforms to steal user’s cryptocurrency. […]

In a major blunder, cryptocurrency platform Compound accidentally paid out $90 million among its users. Shortly after the mistake, the platform’s founder began asking users to return the money—or else they would be reported to IRS, and possibly doxxed, threatened the founder. […]

Crypto exchange Coinbase disclosed that a threat actor stole cryptocurrency from 6,000 customers after using a vulnerability to bypass the company’s SMS multi-factor authentication security feature. […]

Cryptocurrency expert Virgil Griffith pled guilty today to assisting the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in evading U.S. sanctions by conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and Executive Order 13466. […]

A malicious Firefox add-on named “Safepal Wallet” lived on the Mozilla add-ons site for seven months and scammed users by emptying out their wallets. Safepal is a cryptocurrency wallet application capable of securely storing a variety of crypto assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. […]

This week, threat actors hijacked Bitcoin.org, the authentic website of the Bitcoin project, and altered parts of the website to push a cryptocurrency giveaway scam that unfortunately some users fell for. Although the hack lasted for less than a day, hackers seem to have walked away with a little over $17,000. […]

The US Treasury Department announced the first-ever sanctions against a cryptocurrency exchange, the Russian-linked Suex, for facilitating ransom transactions for ransomware gangs and helping them evade sanctions. […]