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Crypto safety education built from real-world scams, hacks, and user mistakes. Learn practical strategies, wallet security, and proven prevention techniques to protect your digital assets.


Weekly Crypto and Web3 Safety Digest — CW49 2025

11 Dec 2025 7 minute read 0 comments Crypto Safety First

Weekly Crypto and Web3 Safety Digest – CW49 2025 This week’s digest summarizes the week’s highest-impact scams, drainers, phishing attacks, and user-layer mistakes — so you see what actually caused losses, not just headlines. The essential crypto saf...

Weekly Crypto and Web3 Safety Digest — CW48 2025

2 Dec 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Crypto Safety First

This crypto and web3 safety digest CW48 2025 summarizes the week’s highest-impact scams, drainers, phishing kits, and user-layer mistakes — so you can understand what actually caused real losses, not hypothetical threats. The essential crypto safety...

Weekly Crypto and Web3 Safety Digest — CW47 2025

26 Nov 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Crypto Safety First

The essential crypto safety briefing — what actually mattered this week. This 5-minute briefing distills hundreds of public user reports, OSINT findings, and incident alerts into the 9 real threats that actually caused losses this week. No hype — jus...

Crypto Sweeper Bots Hacks and Scams You Need To Know

9 Jul 2024 3 minute read 5 comments Crypto Safety First

  In this post, you will learn how hackers and scammers can use sweeper bots to hack or scam your hard-earned cryptocurrency assets. Sweeper Bot Hacks Explained Sweeper bots are automated scripts hackers use to monitor and intercept cryptocurrency t...

Just Got Drained, and This is What Was Taken

2 Jul 2024 3 minute read 7 comments Crypto Safety First

  Another crypto asset owner had his wallet drained after clicking on a phishing link. All it took was one single mouse click. As this person mentions in the tweet, after a long day, while tired, they decided to click on a link without doing any re...

The Meme Coin Gold Rush

26 Jun 2024 3 minute read 3 comments Crypto Safety First

Losses in crypto assets sometimes result from external sources like hacks, scams, or accidents. However, poor investment decisions lead to wealth loss more frequently than any other cause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(comic_strip) This post w...

Lessons Not Learned From The First Ever Bitcoin Hack

19 Jun 2024 4 minute read 4 comments Crypto Safety First

June 13th, 2011: Bitcoin's first cyber theft was worth 500,000 USD at that time. The whole story can be read in the bitcointalk.org forum. Also, 'The Bitcoin Historian' has created a very informative tweet about what happened. For busy people, the s...

Crypto Stolen - Malicious Apps in Apple Store

17 Jun 2024 3 minute read 1 comment Crypto Safety First

The apps from the Apple or Android store are always safe and legitimate. Correct? After all, we are speaking about big corporations with plenty of resources to ensure that all the software in their stores is safe and legitimate. Well, that's a dange...

Another Data Breach — CoinGecko — Have You Been Pawned?

11 Jun 2024 3 minute read 5 comments Crypto Safety First

Once again, a data breach leads to thousands of users’ account data being stolen. This time, it happened to a Coingecko — not directly but through a third-party software provider named GetResponse. Security breaches happen occasionally to reputable...

Cryptocurrency Wallet Drained — Twice! 21,000 USD gone.

9 Jun 2024 3 minute read 7 comments Crypto Safety First

This is the story of a cryptocurrency user who got a cryptocurrency wallet drained TWICE. Unfortunately, this person didn’t have the tools or knowledge to prevent hackers from hacking his wallet and losing Crypto assets worth 21,000 USD. We cannot g...