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‘Cryptojacking’ in Financial Sector Soars 269% in 2022, Security Firm Report
A report from cybersecurity company SonicWall shows financial firms are now the main victims of so-called ‘cryptojacking’ attack...
Dogecoin Copycat ‘TeddyDoge’ Drops 99.95% in $4.5 Million Rug Pull
The Dogecoin copycat, TeddyDoge (TEDDY), has lost over 99.95 percent of its value over the past few days after suffering what crypto securit...
Hackers Take Over British Army’s YouTube, Twitter to Promote NFTs
The British Army is investigating a hack that occurred on its Twitter and YouTube accounts last week, the BBC has reported. It seems the hac...
Australians Lost Almost $100 Million in 2021 to Crypto Investment Scams
Aussies lost more than A$2 billion to scams in 2021, including losses of A$84 million due to scammers seeking payment with cryptocurrency, a...
OpenSea Announces New Security Features to Protect Users Against Scams
In response to a rash of recent stolen and plagiarised NFTs implicating its platform, OpenSea has announced the launch of a new feature that...
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...