Phishing
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Crypto markets overall haven’t yet tested all-time highs, but MetaMask is well on its way to record numbers of active users
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They say money never sleeps. In crypto, that means the phishers, fraudsters and other cyberbaddies are also always working
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The attack happened after a former employee was phished, giving the attacker access to Ledger’s package manager
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The Ledger attacker was able to upload the malicious code to ConnectKit after phishing a former Ledger employee
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An early Bitcoin adopter lost his entire stash to a dodgy wallet more than five years ago — and he says he knows exactly who did it
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The founder of Moonbirds lost high-value NFTs from collections including Autoglyph, Chromie Squiggles and Damien Hirst’s The Currency
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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried warned that reimbursing users affected by the 3Commas phishing scam would be a “one time thing”
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The phishing campaign is part of a much wider hack and is not considered an exploit, according to several users and Uniswap’s founder
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A third-party vendor’s employee misused their access to OpenSea’s customer data, the head of security said
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The Discord account belonging to BAYC community manager Boris Vagner was compromised on Saturday, paving the way for the theft
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The DeFi wallet is advising users to disable iCloud backups to prevent future scams
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A malicious actor pretending to be Trezor sent a false email requesting victims to update their software and change their wallet PIN
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Security concerns, however, didn’t seem to slow the growth of the booming industry, which reached $17.7 billion in sales last year
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Scammers made off with 254 NFTs, including a few Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, according to data from blockchain security firm PeckShield
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