Scammers use clone sites of Blockworks and Etherscan to deceive crypto users.

Phishing fraudsters have devised a new scam, creating sham duplicate sites of crypto media outlet Blockworks and Ethereum blockchain scanner Etherscan, to dupe crypto users into connecting their wallets to a crypto drainer. Their deceitful tactics are centred around a faux news of a $37 million Uniswap exploit. The counterfeit Blockworks site displays a forged […]

Binance’s “Hot Wallet 7” sends $240,000 to suspected phishing address: what really happened?

A recent transaction on Etherscan revealed that Binance’s official “Hot Wallet 7” transferred $240,000 worth of USDC to an address labeled as “Fake_Phishing.” However, before jumping to conclusions, it’s important to consider a more plausible explanation. It is likely that the owner of the “Fake_Phishing” address made a standard withdrawal from Binance, and Binance was […]