Dozens of U.S. businesses, public buildings, and more have been evacuated in response to a string of bomb threats currently sweeping the nation. The person or persons making the threats, are demanding a sum of Bitcoin be sent to a wallet address, or are threatening to detonate a bomb, potentially harming many in the process.…
Let’s face it, there aren’t many instances where you can imagine a story entailing Bitcoin, porn, and Panera Bread, but that’s exactly the case with an 86-year-old Chicago woman. The tech-savvy elderly woman was able to connect the dots as to how a Bitcoin extortionist was able to find her through a data leak stemming…
For the umpteenth time Bitcoin has dumped double digits in a single day … again. Yet the FUD and panic still pervades the scene like a bleak cloud of despair that will be blown away and forgotten within a week. A Fourth Dip to Four Figures Since the big rally begun in early April, Bitcoin…
The inventor of the reality television programme “Big Brother”, John de Mol, has sued Facebook over its negligence in policing the advertisements it allows on its platform. The Dutch billionaire has been the face of a fake advertising campaign for a Bitcoin investment platform. De Mol is not the only celebrity to have had his…
Users of the peer-to-peer OTC Bitcoin trading service LocalBitcoins have been targeted by cyber criminals as part of a phishing scam, resulting in the user’s Bitcoin being stolen. Forum users were being redirected to a phishing site, which was prompting the users to input two-factor authentication codes that were used to access user accounts and empty…
The UK-based supermarket giant Tesco has had its Twitter account compromised by hackers. Almost mirroring an attack last year, those behind it have attempted to scam Bitcoin from the store’s customers. Tesco appears to have now regained control of its Twitter account. The hackers attempts to earn Bitcoin from the supermarket’s customers appear to have…
The PlusToken scam of 2019 helped fuel Bitcoin’s parabolic rise to $14,000 in mid-2019, before the scammers began dumping stolen Bitcoin into the market through the crypto exchange Huobi.New data that shows the growth of cryptocurrency wallets across the most popular cryptocurrency exchange from January 2019 on, shows just how large the impact that PlusToken…
According to research conducted by UK cyber crime investigation firm Digital Shadows and reported in The Next Web, cyber criminals have managed to generate around $332,000 in Bitcoin from an email-based blackmail scam. These funds were sent from over 3,100 unique Bitcoin addresses. The scam was first reported in 2017. However, the popularity of the…
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Zambia has issued a caution to the public to beware of scammers operating cryptocurrency investment advice services. The financial regulators received information about a company called KWAKOO that was pushing an initial coin offering with dubious future price predictions. The nation’s SEC has stated that the firm is not…
Belgium’s Financial Services Authority (FSMA) has added new warnings to its list of firms thought to be involved with crypto-related fraud. The financial watchdog has now alerted the nation’s investing public to a total of 121 different scam cryptocurrency-focused investment prospects since it started listing them in early 2018. The FMSA is one of the…