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NFT Artist Beeple’s Twitter Account Hacked, $438k Lost in Phishing Scam
Digital artist and NFT creator Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, has been targeted in a serial phishing expedition that netted scamme...
GoDaddy Website Hack Leaves DeFi Protocol ‘SpiritSwap’ Compromised
Multiple DeFi protocols have been compromised after an attack on the world’s biggest domain registrar, GoDaddy. Unconfirmed reports sugges...
CoinGecko Warn Users of ‘Suspicious Pop-Ups’ Phishing Attacks
Several popular crypto websites, including those of data aggregator CoinGecko and Ethereum block explorer Etherscan, were targeted by a larg...
Azuki NFTs Collapse 63% Amid Revelations of Founder’s Failed NFT Projects
Azuki NFTs have plunged 63 percent in price after the project’s pseudonymous founder Zagabond revealed his previous involvement in thr...
OpenSea Discord Hacked, NFTs Stolen Using Fake YouTube Site
OpenSea has suffered a security breach on its main Discord channel, allowing hackers to promote a fake YouTube partnership with the NFT plat...
Redditor Issues Warning After Phone’s Predictive Text Guessed His Seed Phrase
An IT professional from Germany has warned fellow Reddit users after discovering that his mobile phone’s predictive text feature enabl...
Aussie Crypto Project Sportemon Go Token Collapses Leaving Investors Fuming
Australia-founded crypto NFT project Sportemon Go has ceased trading on its native token SGOX, leaving investors disgruntled, to say the lea...
Elon Musk Buys Twitter Promising to Eradicate Crypto Spam Bots
It’s official, Elon Musk has bought Twitter for US$44 billion and will be taking the social media giant private. Despite various blue ...
Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Instagram Compromised in $2.8 Million NFT Phishing Scam
Bored Ape Yacht Club’s (BAYC) Instagram account has been hacked in a phishing scam resulting in an exploit of US$2.8 million worth of NFTs...
US Senator Proposes Laws to Make Rug Pulls a Crime
Under new legislation filed in the US state of New York, lawmakers intend to confirm fraudulent rug pulls as a crime along with other crypto...
$34 Million ‘AkuDreams’ NFT Project Locked Permanently by Smart Contract Error
An error in a smart contract has led to NFT project AkuDreams locking up US$34 million worth of Ethereum. The project was hit by an exploit ...
Hacker Exploits DeFi Protocol ‘Zeed’ for $1 Million But Fails to Take the Funds
After the decentralised finance (DeFi) protocol ‘Zeed’ was exploited for US$1 million this week, the hacker destroyed the contra...