Common Crypto Scams and How to Protect Your Funds in 2026

Crypto scams are surging worldwide, from pig butchering to fake trading platforms and deepfakes, draining victims while fraud teams struggle to keep up...

Crypto’s rising value likely to bring new wave of scams

With the value of cryptocurrencies going to the roof, you can expect several attempts to get defrauded if you even show the slightest interest in the topic or not. Since most cybercriminals lack creativity and are notoriously lazy, we expect to see only slight variations of old tricks. So, we...

AllaKore RAT Malware Targeting Mexican Firms with Financial Fraud Tricks

Mexican financial institutions are under the radar of a new spear-phishing campaign that delivers a modified version of an open-source remote access trojan called AllaKore RAT. The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team attributed the activity to an unknown Latin America-based financially...

$320 milllion stolen from Wormhole crypto-trading platform

By using an exploit in the software of crypto-trading platform Wormhole, threat actors have stolen an estimated $322 million in cryptocurrencies. The platform is offering a $10 million award for the stolen money and details about the attack. How they pulled it off Wormhole Portal is a web-based...

New burnOverflow Bug Identified in Multiple ERC20 Smart Contracts (CVE-2018-11239)

Our vulnerability-scanning system at PeckShield has so far discovered several dangerous smart contract vulnerabilities batchOverflow1, proxyOverflow2, transferFlaw3, ownerAnyone4, multiOverflow5. Some of them could be used by attackers to generate tokens out of nowhere while others can be used to...