Cybercriminals hacked the Twitter account of the Robinhood exchange on Wednesday. In a now-deleted tweet, the hacked account was used to promote a scam offering crypto tokens and NFTs on the Binance Smart Chain through the PancakeSwap decentralized exchange. Robinhood’s other social media profiles were also compromised. According to a

Is the crypto bear market coming to an end? Cryptocurrency prices are on the rise lately, and there are now growing signs that the NFT space is rebounding as well. The latest: OpenSea, the leading marketplace, has notched back-to-back Ethereum NFT monthly sales increases for the first time in a

Non-fungible token (NFT) influencer who goes by ‘NFT God’ on Twitter lost all his digital assets in a hack on Jan. 14. One of his nearly 90,000 Twitter followers bought NFT God’s stolen Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT and offered to return it at cost price — over $25,000. Earlier in

NFT Investments, a British company that as its name suggests invests in companies developing non-fungible tokens (NFTs), announced on Thursday that it lost $250,000 of assets in a cyberattack. The company, which describes itself as working with “entrepreneurs to develop NFT assets,” disclosed the incident through the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE)

It’s no secret that in 2022 the world of Web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi) experienced a slew of major exploits and attacks. From the Ronin bridge attack to the Nomad hack, the top 10 exploits alone saw over $2 billion lost. In the Beosin Global Web3 Security Report 2022, it

The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday it had arrested and filed criminal charges against the founder of an NFT project it alleges “rug pulled” holders and defrauded them of $2.9 million in cryptocurrency. Aurelien Michel, 24, the founder of Ethereum NFT collection Mutant Ape Planet, was arrested last night at

Nike’s RTFKT COO Nikhil Gopalani becomes the latest victim of a vast hack losing multiple NFTs from his wallet. Gopalani’s wallet has lost all of its NFTs at the time of this writing, aside from one: a Death Row Records NFT of the “Clone X Theme Song,” which is estimated

China is introducing a “digital asset trading platform” to facilitate transactions of intellectual property and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), known as digital collectibles in the country, where cryptocurrencies are banned. A launch ceremony will be held on January 1, according to state media China Daily. The platform is co-developed by China

Next year will be a big year for building in “tech crypto.” While the investment side of crypto (aka “money crypto”) struggles to repair grotesque violations of trust in centralized finance (CeFi), tech crypto must focus even more intently on improving user safety on-chain. This issue needs to be addressed

Researchers have unearthed a new phishing campaign involving North Korea-linked hackers targeting NFT users purchasing tokens on platforms such as OpenSea, X2Y2, and Rarible. Users would first purchase legitimate-looking NFTs on these websites, and these NFTs would then direct the buyer to fraudulent NFT-related websites to complete the minting process.