News with the tag "Scam Sniffer"

Phishing scammers are targeting Phantom wallet users by attempting to gain access to their wallets’ private keys through fake pop-ups that spoof legitimate updates requests. A warning has been issued by the scam detection platform Scam Sniffer. In a Feb. 6 post on the social media platform X, Scam S...

Scam Sniffer initially raised the alarm about Telegram malware scams in December last year but says bad actors have since evolved tactics to snare new victims.

A California man is suing three Asia-based banks, claiming they could’ve stopped fraudsters from stealing nearly $1 million in crypto. Ken Liem claims Fubon Bank, Chong Hing Bank, and DBS Bank ignored red flags that enabled fraudsters to defraud him through a pig butchering scam. Liem says that scam...

Blockchain security firm Scam Sniffer has raised alarms about a new wave of scams targeting cryptocurrency users through fake Telegram verification bots. These schemes use social engineering tactics to inject malware into victims’ systems, ultimately compromising crypto wallets. In a December 10 pos...

Scam Sniffer told Cointelegraph it was the first time it’s seen a scam use a “specific combination of fake X accounts, fake Telegram channels and malicious Telegram bots.”

Blockchain security firm ScamSniffer’s mid-year report revealed that over 260,000 individuals lost $314 million to phishing scams across all Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) chains during the first half of this year. Also Read: FBI warns of new crypto scams involving fake law firms According to the fi...

The user fell victim to the phishing scam after signing multiple phishing signatures, which led to losing their digital assets.

A widespread phishing campaign has been uncovered, targeting users of the popular Ethereum blockchain explorer Etherscan through malicious advertisements.

Source: Pixabay A malicious actor has stolen over $2 million from Safe Wallet users in the past week through address poisoning theft raising the total victim count to 21. Several blockchain security firms have tracked suspected activity from different transactions resulting in losses from Safe Walle...

On-chain data shows the $4.5 million was first transferred from the Kraken crypto exchange, before eventually arriving at an address purportedly owned by a scammer.