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The rise of fake cryptocurrency apps and how to avoid them
Scammers have been taking advantage of blockchain’s decentralized and immutable nature to swindle crypto investors since the advent of the technology. And, according to the latest FBI fraud report, fr...
North Koreans Creating Fake Applications to Land Crypto Jobs, Says Researchers
Cybersecurity experts claim North Korean hackers are posing as job applicants for crypto jobs in wealthy countries to fund government operations. So-called North Korean software developers are scrapin...
North Koreans Allegedly Using Fake Resumes to Steal Crypto For The Government
– Advertisement – Fake IDs and Resumes Used to Launder Cryptocurrency by People Allegedly Working For The North Korean Government. Bloomberg reports that according to interviews with cyb...
Last Week [In] Crypto: Google and Apple Slammed Over Fake Crypto Apps, Tether Says It Holds Zero Chinese Commercial Paper
Keeping up with the news might be too much of a hassle, but fret not! Be[in]Crypto has rounded up the most critical stories in the crypto industry, from the incoming waves of lawsuits to the arrest of...
US Senator wants Apple and Google to share information on fake crypto apps
US lawmakers continue to express interest in regulating the crypto space and ensuring there is reduced risk to US investors. Senator Sherrod Brown has now written letters to Apple and Google’s parent ...
Apple and Google under radar over fake crypto apps
Apple and Google, two of the most valuable companies in the tech space, are being accused of facilitating crypto-related fraud. These organizations are being pressed for information by U.S. Senator Sh...
US Lawmaker Demands Answers From Apple and Google on Measures Against Fake Crypto Apps – Featured Bitcoin News
A U.S. lawmaker has demanded answers from Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai about their measures against fake cryptocurrency apps appearing in the Apple App Store and the Google Play sto...
US Lawmakers Demand that Google and Apple Provide Them Info on Fake Crypto Apps
During the Senate Banking Committee hearing, Senator Brown said that regulators and lawmakers should take the burden of crypto scams running on online platforms. As the crypto market matures, bad acto...
US lawmaker calls for Apple and Google to provide info on fake crypto apps
Senator Sherrod Brown, chair of the Senate Banking Committee, has penned letters to the CEOs of Google’s parent company Alphabet and Apple calling for the tech firms to provide information on the ways...
Shiba Inu traders expecting fake drop should read this
Shiba Inu [SHIB] continues to see unprecedented demand from whales despite the bearish market. However, fundamentals on-chain metrics still paint a grim scenario whatsoever. All bark and no bite? SHI...
U.S. Senator seeks safeguards disclosures from Apple, Google amid rise in fake crypto apps
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) sent letters to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet on July 28, asking for information about what the companies are doing to prote...
U.S. Bank workers opened fake accounts to meet sales goals, feds say
NEW YORK — For more than a decade, U.S. Bank pressured its employees to open fake accounts in their customers’ names in order to meet unrealistic sales goals, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...
Apple and Google under fire for fake crypto investing apps
Apple and Google, the world’s most valuable corporations, are being targeted for enabling crypto fraud. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is demanding ans...
FBI detects fake crypto apps that scammed $42.7M from 244 victims
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) detected three fake crypto apps that stole around $42.7 million from 244 victims between October 4, 2021, and May 13, 2022, and recently issued a public ...
FBI Warns of Fake Crypto Apps — 244 Investors Defrauded, $42.7 Million Lost – Featured Bitcoin News
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning about fake cryptocurrency apps defrauding investors. “The FBI has identified 244 victims and estimates the approximate loss associated wi...
Crypto Researcher Who First Called Bitcoin $50K Says The Current BTC Rally Is Fake
– Advertisement – The founder of a popular market research firm thinks BTC is on a dead cat bounce. Since the beginning of 2022, the crypto market and the stock market have experienced...
Ethereum Fake Breakout – ETH Price Will Drop To $675 Level Before Rising Again – Coinpedia – Fintech & Cryptocurreny News Media
The second-largest cryptocurrency asset by market capitalization, Ethereum (ETH), is making a remarkable comeback as the market as a whole begins to recover from a recent bearish storm that pushed it ...
Georgia Fake Electors Could Face Criminal Charges, DA Reportedly Says
Topline Sixteen Republicans who met at the Georgia state capitol in 2020 to cast sham Electoral College ballots for then-President Donald Trump have been told they are under criminal investigation and...
FBI issues a warning of the rise of fake cryptocurrency apps
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is investigating fake cryptocurrency applications and has issued an advisory warning the public about these apps. The bureau said that the fake cryptocurrenc...
This May be a Fake Pump-Warns an Analyst, Will the Bulls be Trapped?
Bitcoin price is yet again climbing high after a brief consolidation aiming to secure levels above the crucial resistance close to $ 22,400 by the end of the day’s trade. On the other hand, the altcoi...
Crypto Investors Lost $42 Million to Fake Apps in 7 Months
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned financial institutions and crypto traders about the increasing growth of fake crypto investment apps. Fraudulent Crypto Apps Defraud...
FBI warns fake crypto apps cost investors up to $43 million
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has raised the alarm over the emergence of fake cryptocurrency wallets that have defrauded unsuspecting users millions of dollars. In particular, the agency...
FBI issues public warning over fake crypto apps
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a public warning about fraudulent cryptocurrency apps, which have swindled U.S. investors out of an estimated $42.7 million so far. According to a...
Bitcoin hodlers will ‘soon see why’ $21.6K BTC price pump is fake — trader
Bitcoin (BTC) spiked to one-week highs on July 17 amid warnings that traders should not trust current BTC price action. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Binance inflows see ...
Fake Inflation Report Circulates, Sending Stocks Spiraling
NORTH MIAMI – FEBRUARY 20: Evelyn Bonilla shops for groceries at Lorenzo’s Supermarket as a new … [+] government report showed that consumer prices rose last month Februrary 20, 2008...
Russia Detains Activist Ilya Yashin For Spreading ‘Fake Information’—Here’s Who Else The Kremlin Has Targeted
Topline Russia on Wednesday detained prominent opposition politician Ilya Yashin—one of the last opposition activists remaining in Russia—for two months for allegedly spreading false information about...
Fake Inflation Data Triggers BTC, ETH Price Dump
A fake news release claiming to disclose the Consumer Price Index for June 2022 caused a sharp downfall in crypto prices on Tuesday. The fake report detailed the CPI for June 2022 to rise by 1.7 perce...
U.S. June inflation report circulating on internet Tuesday is fake, Bureau of Labor Statistics says
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday that a release circulating online purporting to show June inflation data, due for release on Wednesday morning, was a forgery. “We’re aware of a fake ...
Fake Uniswap Phishing Attack Shocked The Crypto Community
A community of attackers drained crypto wallets of thousands in a phishing attack. The attack was executed by sending a large number of users malicious tokens. Users misunderstood these tokens to be s...
Uniswap Fake Token Phishing Attack Results In $4.7 Million Loss
Attackers looted at least $4.7 million worth of Ethereum from cryptocurrency exchanges through a fraudulent token scam targeting liquidity providers (LPs) of the Uniswap v3 protocol (ETH). As of now, ...
More than $4.7M stolen in Uniswap fake token phishing attack
A sophisticated phishing campaign targeting liquidity providers (LPs) of the Uniswap v3 protocol has seen attackers make off with at least $4.7 million worth of Ethereum (ETH). However, the community ...