Late Wednesday, Twitter user @shibainuart reported that CoinMarketCap had removed three listed Shiba Inu (SHIB) addresses on the Binance Smart Chain (BNB), Solana (SOL), and Terra (LUNA) blockchains. Only the ERC-20 (ETH) SHIB token is visible on the site at the time of publication. A massive firestorm brewed on Twitter about three weeks prior after Shiba Inu developers alleged … [Read more...] about CoinMarketCap removes allegedly fake SHIB wormhole addresses
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CoinMarketCap allegedly lists 3 fake SHIB contract addresses, Twitter firestorm ensues
A bit Twitter drama ensued on Thursday, continuing well into Friday afternoon, when developers behind popular meme token Shiba Inu (SHIB) issued a statement alleging that CoinMarketCap had listed three fake SHIB contract addresses belonging to the Binance Smart Chain (BNB), Solana (SOL), and Terra Luna (LUNA) blockchains. The staff at Shiba Inu claimed that the addresses were … [Read more...] about CoinMarketCap allegedly lists 3 fake SHIB contract addresses, Twitter firestorm ensues
Amid call for crypto regulation, hacker uses India’s PM Twitter account to promote fake BTC giveaway
At a time when authorities in India are still grappling with how to deal with the growing influence of the crypto industry, it would be unimaginable to think that the country’s Prime minister could be promoting Bitcoin.But this was what happened yesterday via the official Twitter handle of the PM where a hacker shared a post that the flagship digital asset was now a legal … [Read more...] about Amid call for crypto regulation, hacker uses India’s PM Twitter account to promote fake BTC giveaway
India Prime Minister Suffers Another Twitter Hack; Fake Tweet Sent Promising Bitcoin to All Indians
The Twitter account of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly hacked early Sunday morning local time, the second such attack on an account linked to the PM in little over a year. While the account was restored quickly, the hacker had enough time to tweet, falsely, that India had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and that the government had bought 500 bitcoin and would … [Read more...] about India Prime Minister Suffers Another Twitter Hack; Fake Tweet Sent Promising Bitcoin to All Indians
Crypto scammers make $9 million on fake YouTube streams
Crypto scammers have stepped up their acts in devising new means of defrauding their victims as new research has revealed that they now doctor YouTube videos of influential people in the crypto industry to promote fake crypto giveaways.Crypto scammers got $9 million through doctoring YouTube videosAccording to the research conducted by Tenable, crypto scammers were able to … [Read more...] about Crypto scammers make $9 million on fake YouTube streams