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Aussie Consumers have Already Lost $200 Million to Investment Scams in 2022
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch site has found that Aussies lost over A$205 million to investment scams bet...
Crypto Scams Raked in $1 Billion in 2021, US Regulator Reports
According to a report by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), more than 46,000 people have been scammed out of US$1 billion-plus since the...
Australian Labor Government Urged to Protect Aussies from Crypto Scams
Consumer advocates have begun urging the new Australian Labor government to protect citizens from crypto scams. This accompanies the release...
29 Moonbird NFTs Worth $1.5 Million Stolen in Phishing Attack
NFT owners have been urged to remain vigilant after 29 Moonbird tokens were stolen in a phishing attack when a malicious link netted a scamm...
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 ...