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Scammers Are Sending Ledger Users Fake Hardware Wallets

The fake wallets are an escalation in phishing attempts following a 2020 data breach that exposed 272,000 customer addresses.

An employee connects a Ledger wallet to a computer inside the offices of La Maison du Bitcoin bank in Paris.

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South Korea Clamps Down on Phishing Activity Targeting Crypto Investors: Report

South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT reports there has been a surge in phishing attempts targeting cryptocurrency users.

The South Korean Financial Services Commission is extending a ban on short-selling after last week's GameStop share price pump.

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Celsius Suffers Third-Party Data Breach, Customers Report Phishing Texts, Emails

The crypto lender's data leak comes almost a year to the date after a similar data leak hit BlockFi.

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Binance Gives $200K to Investigators Who Helped Identify Actors Behind 2018 Attack

The exchange has awarded a bounty of $200,000 to private investigators who helped now-indicted bad actors who attacked the exchange in 2018.

Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao

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'Convincing' Phishing Attack Targets Ledger Hardware Wallet Users

Ledger confirmed that for the last week some customers have been the target of a phishing attack.

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Twitter Hack May Have Involved Another Teenager: Report

According to a recent report, a 16-year-old was served with a search warrant by federal agents at his home on Tuesday.

The attackers were managed to access direct messages from 36 accounts, including CoinDesk's. (Ravi Sharma/Unsplash)

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Binance Helped UK Police Investigate Criminal Involved in $50 Million Fraud

The exchange said it helped British police bust a cybercriminal who sold phishing tools that resulted in the theft of millions of pounds.

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Canadians Charged for $220,000 Bitcoin Scam on Twitter

Two Canadian nationals posed as HitBTC customer service representatives in order to steal a user's login credentials.

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Google Yanked MetaMask From the Chrome Store, Left a Phishing Scam Up

Scams are an epidemic in the crypto space, and clumsy actions by big tech companies can open up the opportunities, as MetaMask learned recently.

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How ICOs Can Protect Buyers from Phishing Attacks

The excitement surrounding ICOs has left investors vulnerable to phishing attacks, diminishing the reputation of the new investment mechanism.

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