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OpenSea NFT Platform Bugs Let Hackers Steal Crypto Wallets Security researchers found that an attacker could leave OpenSea account owners with an empty cryptocurrency balance by luring them to click on malicious NFT art. With a transaction volume of $3.4 billion, OpenSea is the world’s largest marketplace for buying, selling, and auctioning non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
Ukraine Takes Down Call Centers Behind Cryptocurrency Investor Scams The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has taken down a network of six call centers in Lviv, used by a ring of scammers to defraud cryptocurrency investors worldwide. Fraudsters behind these illegal call centers used VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone numbers to hide their locations
Malicious ‘Safepal Wallet’ Firefox Add-on Stole Cryptocurrency A malicious Firefox add-on named “Safepal Wallet” scammed users by emptying out their wallets and lived on the Mozilla add-ons store for seven months. Safepal is a cryptocurrency wallet application capable of securely holding more than 10,000 types of assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Although the malicious browser add-on has been
Walmart Press Release Hoax Causes Litecoin to Spike 34% A fake Walmart press release stating that the retail chain would begin accepting Litecoin caused the cryptocurrency to jump by almost 35% this morning. The fake Walmart press release [archive] was released this morning at 9:30 AM and included made-up quotes from Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon