Scams

Hyderabad: Indian natives are cheating their fellow citizens by sitting in well-equipped and furnished call centers located in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Nepal. Investigations into the Cybercrime units of Telangana police…

Deribit, the largest cryptocurrency options exchange, has paused all withdrawals to third-party custodians after losing $28 million worth of crypto in a hot wallet hack.  Deribit’s Hot Wallet Hacked for $28…

A New York bankruptcy judge expanded the scope of the probe in the Celsius Network bankruptcy as the company’s customers demanded investigations into the crypto lender’s business operations, according to a Wall Street Journal report.At…

The crypto analyst who accurately called this year’s crypto market collapse is warning of new price lows for digital assets this month. The pseudonymous trader known as Crypto Capo tells his 573,000 Twitter followers that several…

Ethereum ETH/USD creator Vitalik Buterin said newly-minted Twitter CEO Elon Musk's plans to put a price tag on verification tag could damage blue check's anti-scam role.What Happened: Buterin, in a series of tweets, stated that lack of due…

* Crime rings trap young Asians through online job ads* Workers forced to manage crypto and romance fraud scams* Thousands feared entrapped in Laos, Myanmar and CambodiaBy Anuradha Nagaraj and Nanchanok Wongsamuth CHENNAI/BANGKOK, Nov 2…

A 25-year-old Bengalurean, studying in Germany, lost Rs 1.5 lakh to a cyber fraud two weeks ago. An SMS asked him to update his PAN on a link, and he didn’t realise it was a phishing attempt.His father has since reported the case on 112…

Article content Open the pages of a newspaper, go online or switch on the television, and you’re bound to hear about a scam. It feels like scams are overwhelming us. Crooks on our phones texting us, and even, alarmingly, at our doorsteps,…

The cryptocurrency space has lost nearly $2.98 billion to DeFi hacks this year — almost double the $1.55 billion lost in 2021, according to a recent report by blockchain security firm PeckShield.#PeckShieldAlert ~44 exploits (53 protocols…

DeFi has been around for quite some time, but it only really exploded in 2022. Since then, hundreds of DeFi protocols have appeared on the market and grown exponentially in a very short while. The value of these protocols tripled…