MyEtherWallet’ Problems Continue – Having Enormous Amount of Phishing Attacks

MyEtherWallet’ Problems Continue – Having Enormous Amount of Phishing Attacks

It was only couple of days ago when we wrote about MEW’s phishing attack, where hackers got away with over 200 ETH. Popular wallet’s team gave insight on the matter on Twitter, where they emphasized that they weren’t actually hacked, but phishing attack took place because the public Google DNS servers were compromised. Well, we…

Roger Ver Facing a Lawsuit For Shilling Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

Roger Ver Facing a Lawsuit For Shilling Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

This is actually funny to me. All Bitcoin Cash fanboys simply believe that Bitcoin Cash is a continuation of the original Bitcoin project – which it isn’t. Roger Ver, one of the driving for behind Bitcoin Cash, will likely be sued by a group of Bitcoin activists. There’s already a Telegram group named “Bitcoin.com lawsuit/…

Crypto Douchebags Were Reported to FBI For Pump and Dumps – Might Go to Jail

Crypto Douchebags Were Reported to FBI For Pump and Dumps – Might Go to Jail

Someone from a semi-secret Discord chat group went public with screenshots of chat histories that exposed some quite high profile cryptocurrency influencers planning a classic pump and dump scheme. Which in the world of “real trading” is criminal activity that might land people in real jail. Chat group is called Bitcoin Bravado and all hell…

MyEtherWallet Hacked – Google DNS Servers Hijacked by Russians, 215 Ethereum Stolen

MyEtherWallet Hacked – Google DNS Servers Hijacked by Russians, 215 Ethereum Stolen

World’s most popular Ethereum wallet generator MyEtherWallet was hacked today and so far nearly 200,000 dollars worth of cryptocurrency has been moved to hackers wallet. Here is what we know so far. MyEtherWallet says problem was not on their side, but on Google’s – multinational conglomerate’s DNS servers were hijacked using a well-known hacking technique….

Money-saving Expert Journalist Planning To Sue Facebook For Scamming Users With Crypto Ads

Money-saving Expert Journalist Planning To Sue Facebook For Scamming Users With Crypto Ads

Martin Lewis is an English journalist, but he is more known as a celebrity money-saving guru. Lewis just tweeted that he is going to sue Facebook. He accuses world’s biggest social network of “defamation related to deceptive cryptocurrency advertisements” – as he writes in his blog. Lewis claims that Facebook has shown over 50 cryptocurrency…

Man Who Stole Bunch Of Cryptocurrency Mining Rigs In Iceland Flees Jail And Country

Man Who Stole Bunch Of Cryptocurrency Mining Rigs In Iceland Flees Jail And Country

The infamous “Big Bitcoin Heist” star, the bad boy of Iceland’s cryptocurrency mining, has fled the country. As written in Iceland’s Frettabladid newspaper, Sindri Thor Stefansson was being detained and held in Sogn prison, which is an open prison. How Scandinavian! After escaping prison Stefansson drove to Keflavik International Airport, where he boarded a flight…

UPDATED: $50 Million Exit Scam by Savedroid? Not Many People Saw It Coming

UPDATED: $50 Million Exit Scam by Savedroid? Not Many People Saw It Coming

With about 97.6% certainty we can now say that Savedroid has fooled us all. About 12 hours ago website for the German company unexpectedly went offline, leaving visitors with worrying South Park meme that said “AAAAAAAND IT’S GONE”. UPDATE: it turns out it wasn’t an exit scam, they just pulled the most idiotic PR-stunt in…

Verge Gets X-Rated: Cryptocurrency and Adult Entertainment Strike a Deal

Verge Gets X-Rated: Cryptocurrency and Adult Entertainment Strike a Deal

Just couple of days ago we wrote about shady tactics of Verge and how there’s too many red flags to take them seriously. There were still some fanboys in the community who believed Verge cryptocurrency will partner with Paypal, but today we finally got the news – you can now making payments with Verge in…

Stuff Happening in India – Businessman Kidnapped For Bitcoin

Stuff Happening in India – Businessman Kidnapped For Bitcoin

Nine police officers were recently arrested in India because they allegedly extorted money AND bitcoins from a local businessman. Online magazine QZ.com writes that the total sum was almost 50 thousand dollars in cash and 200 bitcoin, which at the time of the robbery was worth almost 140 thousand dollars. Lately there are things happening…

US Crypto Tax Returns to Arrive Any Minute Now – But Why Delay?

US Crypto Tax Returns to Arrive Any Minute Now – But Why Delay?

Only few days left now for US citizens to file their taxes, but crypto traders are nowhere to be seen, claims credit reporting agency Credit Karma. Number of people who reported gains on their crypto trades haven’t changed since the last time they provided statistics, and some might say it’s rather worrisome. Because only 100…

$500 Million Worth Stolen NEM Coins Apparently Laundered

$500 Million Worth Stolen NEM Coins Apparently Laundered

Criminals who stolen NEM cryptocurrency from mighty currency exchange Coincheck have already converted the full amount into other cryptocurrencies, believe various cybersecurity experts examining the case. Also it has been brought to our attention that NEM Foundation (organization promoting the coin) is no longer tracking transaction of stolen NEMs. When their announcement came to light,…

Yet Another Crypto Celeb Scam – Deborah Meaden and Martin Lewis in the Spotlight

Yet Another Crypto Celeb Scam – Deborah Meaden and Martin Lewis in the Spotlight

So this is number… how many already this year? Yet another cryptocurrency scam, yet another website, this time called Bitcoin Trader and this time it’s using celeb names like Deborah Meaden (BBC’s Dragon Den) and Martin Lewis, who is Moneysavingexpert’s founder. It’s become quite popular to use celebrity names to scam people. As you remember,…