Phishing News

Hacken’s Q1 2026 report finds $482 million lost across 44 incidents, with phishing, legacy code bugs and key compromises driving losses as regulators tighten security demands.

Operation Atlantic, a joint US, UK and Canadian operation, froze more than $12 million tied to crypto approval phishing scams and identified over 20,000 victims.

Operation Atlantic is a cross-border law enforcement effort to detect and disrupt crypto scams in real time, targeting approval phishing before funds are fully drained.

After an Indian court found no case against CoinDCX’s founders, the Coinbase-backed exchange said it will roll out an anti-fraud network to tackle impersonation and cyber fraud.

A Thane judge granted bail to CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Surendra Gupta and Niraj Ashok Khandelwal, finding no case against them.

Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX says the fraud complaint is part of a wider impersonation scam, citing more than 1,200 fake sites using its brand.

Scammers impersonating the FBI via a token are telling Tron users they are under investigation and must complete a check to avoid having their assets frozen.

A phishing campaign used fake GitHub posts and a bogus “CLAW” token to lure OpenClaw developers into connecting crypto wallets.

Crypto theft slowed sharply last month after a spike in January, but security companies warn that scammers are increasingly exploiting wallet permissions and social engineering tactics.

Trust Wallet launched address poisoning protection on 32 EVM chains, adding scam address screening as wallet security pressure intensifies.

Authorities sold the recovered Bitcoin in small batches over 11 days to avoid disrupting the market, according to local media reports.

Tycoon 2FA accounted for 62% of phishing attempts Microsoft blocked by mid last year, including over 30 million emails in a single month.

PeckShield said fewer mega-hacks, heightened volatility and tighter risk controls may have helped push crypto losses to their lowest level in 11 months.

Social engineering and impersonation-related scams were the most frequent attack vectors targeting crypto investors in AMLBot’s investigations last year.

ShinyHunters hackers leaked user data after a social-engineering attack on a Figure employee and the company reportedly refused to pay a ransom.