Scams News
SolGame NFT Rug Pull, Website and Social Media Shut Down
SolGame, a decentralised P2E (Play-2-Earn) NFT-focused project on Solana, appears to have pulled the rug after investors reported that the p...
New Spider-Man Movie Torrent Contains Malicious XMR Mining Program
Cybercriminals have to keep up with the latest trends in order to continue running their scams, so it comes as no surprise they’re exp...
Russia Central Bank Moves to Ban Investment in Crypto
According to a report by Reuters, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (CBR) is looking to ban crypto investments. In a directive issu...
Chainalysis Report Shows Scam Revenue Rose 81% in 2021
Cryptocurrency scams, particularly rugpulls – when a team behind a project cuts and runs with investors’ funds – have become t...
96 Private Keys Stolen From Vulcan Forged Crypto Gaming Platform in $140 Million Theft
A hacker who exploited Polygon gaming platform and NFT marketplace Vulcan Forged was able to steal a total of over 4.5 million of the $PYR n...
$31 Million Stolen in MonoX DeFi Hack
The decentralised finance (DeFi) market has been hit by yet another hack, with US$31 million in a variety of cryptos stolen from MonoX Finan...
New Malware ‘Babadeda’ is Targeting Crypto Users on Discord
A highly sophisticated and very dangerous crypter is loose in the crypto community. It has been named the Babadeda crypter and is targe...
SnowdogDAO Potentially Rugged for $30 Million
SnowdogDAO (SDOG), a decentralised reserve memecoin based on Avalanche, has shed more than 90 percent of its value in what many in the DeFi ...
Google Report: 86% of Hacked Cloud Accounts are Used to Mine Crypto
According to the Threat Horizons report for November released by Google, the majority of recently attacked accounts on the search engineR...
Blockchain Gaming Company ‘Animoca’ to Repay Users 265 ETH After Fake NFT Discord Hack
Hong Kong-based gaming software and venture capital firm Animoca Brands has reassured victims of the recent hack of its upcoming “Phantom ...
Scam Warning: Another Crypto User Falls Victim to Fake MetaMask Google Ad
Scammers have struck again with a sneaky paid advertisement on Google for a fake MetaMask wallet that allows access to victims’ crypto...
Discord CEO Hints at ETH Integration, Allowing Users to Send Each Other Crypto
One of the largest messaging and digital distribution platforms, Discord, could soon allow support for Ethereum, as hinted by its founder an...