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Heard on the Block: “phishing”

Snacks / Tuesday, September 12, 2023

🪴 Like a financial Venus flytrap snapping up your crypto…

Hackers took over ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin’s X (fka Twitter) account and on Saturday posted a “phishing” link promising free NFTs. When unsuspecting folks clicked and connected their crypto wallets, the thieves swiped nearly $700K worth of victims’ digital assets (like: NFTs, tokens). In the first half of this year, scammers stole at least $108M in phishing attacks.

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