Reports have emerged that bad actors allegedly tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group executed a complex cyberattack that used a fake NFT-based game to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome. According to the report, the vulnerability ultimately allowed the attackers to access people’s crypto wallets. Exploiting Chrome’s Zero-Day Flaw Kaspersky Labs security analysts Boris […]
A sponsored Google ad claiming to promote Sony’s blockchain project, Soneium, has been exposed as a crypto wallet drainer. This incident adds to the growing threat of wallet drainers that have plagued the crypto space. Google Ad Scam Targets Soneium’s Users In a post shared on October 22 via X by blockchain security firm Scam […]
WalletConnect has warned crypto users about a fake app previously available on the Google Play Store. In a September 29 post on X, the organization behind the open-source protocol that enables secure connections between crypto wallets and decentralized applications (dApps) said the offending app has since been removed from Google Play, but not before it […]
Public interest in the ‘Bitcoin halving’ is gaining steam as Google searches for the term have now risen to their highest level in history. According to Google Trends data, interest in the term began steadily ramping up at the start of 2024. Beginning with a score of 9 in January, interest in the “bitcoin halving’ […]
American tech giant Google recently filed a lawsuit against two developers for uploading almost 90 fraudulent crypto investment applications on its online store, Google Play, which they used to defraud unsuspecting victims. Despite the company’s previous attempts to take down fraudulent apps from its Play Store, the alleged scammers found a way to upload more […]