Scams, Schemes and Hacks

The team behind popular Bitcoin wallet service Electrum says it's identified rogue lines of code on a bogus copycat called "Electrum Pro" that steal Bitcoin. Electrum...

Digital asset exchange OKEX announced today that it suspended deposits of all ERC-20 tokens "due to the discovery of a new smart contract bug -...

MyEtherWallet – a popular wallet generator for Ethereum and Ethereum-based tokens – has confirmed it was hacked early this morning. According to the blockchain explorer...

A recent crawl of more than 175 million websites found active cryptocurrency mining scripts on 23,872 unique domains. That's about 1 in every 7,300 sites....

The FBI just sent a shout-out to cryptocurrency investors and consumers, warning about a surge in tech support scams. The scammers are pretending to...

Welcome to the Wild World of Cryptocurrency Scams Cryptocurrency has long been able to escape the grip of regulators, and even with numerous entities...

In 2016, Craig Wright claimed he created Bitcoin with the help of now-deceased, ex-colleague David Kleiman. Now, Craig is being sued by Dave’s brother...

Japanese-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has confirmed a hacker broke through its security today and stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crypto. NEM worth $532...

A man in Vancouver, Canada just lost $3,000 in a Bitcoin telephone tax scam. The scammer told the victim he would be thrown in...

EtherDelta has just released an urgent tweet alerting customers to avoid using the exchange due to a series of malicious attacks. It appears users...