Trader loses $1M after signing phishing token approval
Onchain scammers netted more than $14 billion last year, and approval phishing remains a primary attack vector.
Read More »Influencer Ashcrypto Under Fire for Alleged ROYA Pump-and-Dump Scheme
Onchain investigator ZachXBT has shared evidence that crypto influencer Ashcrypto, known as AshWSB on his Whastapp channel, publicly called the ROYA token while simultaneously telling followers he was holding and…
Read More »Transaction spam attack: Next Steps
Today the network was attacked by a transaction spam attack that repeatedly called the EXTCODESIZE opcode (see trace sample here), thereby creating blocks that take up to 20-60 seconds to…
Read More »Two companies fined a total of £150k after bombarding people with spam texts offering financial, debt services
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined two Manchester based financial and debt management companies a total of £150,000 for sending in excess of 7.5million spam text messages to people.
Read More »blog.ethereum.org mailing list incident
On 2024-06-23, 00:19 AM UTC, a phishing email was sent out to 35,794 email addresses by updates@blog.ethereum.org with the following content Users who clicked the link in the email were sent…
Read More »blog.ethereum.org mailing list incident
On 2024-06-23, 00:19 AM UTC, a phishing email was sent out to 35,794 email addresses by updates@blog.ethereum.org with the following content Users who clicked the link in the email were sent…
Read More »ICO warns charities about direct marketing rules as it orders Penny Appeal to stop sending spam texts
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered a charity to stop sending unsolicited marketing texts to people without their consent, as it reminds all charities of their legal obligations.
Read More »ICO fines financial services company £50k for spam text messages
Financial services company LADH Limited has been fined £50,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for sending tens of thousands of spam text messages, in breach of Privacy and Electronic…
Read More »ICO fines HelloFresh £140,000 for spam texts and emails
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined food delivery company HelloFresh £140,000 for a campaign of 79 million spam emails and 1 million spam texts over a seven-month period.
Read More »Transaction spam attack: Next Steps
Today the network was attacked by a transaction spam attack that repeatedly called the EXTCODESIZE opcode (see trace sample here), thereby creating blocks that take up to 20-60 seconds to…
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