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Crypto Phishing in 2026: The Tells You Were Taught Are Gone

27 Aug 2026 7 minute read 1 comment SimpleSwap

Bad grammar, odd formatting, a suspicious link. Every one of those signals has stopped working, and two of them now point the wrong way. Here is what phishing actually looks like this year, why checking the URL is no longer enough on its own, and the...

The Scam Looked Like a Google Doc. The Target Was a Security Researcher.

26 Aug 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Cryptosafekit

A fake crypto executive, a real Google Doc, and malware waiting behind a “decrypt” button. If professionals are being targeted this way, “I’m too smart for phishing” is not a security strategy. Most crypto scams have a reputation problem. They look...

I Built My Own Nostr Signer and Discovered a Different Security Problem

23 Aug 2026 2 minute read 4 comments SkyLords

I started building my own Nostr signer for a simple reason: I wanted to understand what actually happens between a Nostr client and my private key. I didn't want signing to remain a black box. That small experiment became a browser extension I call...

The Case of the Overprotective Mother: The ISP

21 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments sanfoneiroo

After hearing about Web3, I started thinking about and trying to understand how the Internet works, something we use every day and that has already become such a fundamental part of our lives. I had heard about DePIN, and everything seemed so confusi...

BTC Exploded Above $70000. ETH Followed. This Is When Crypto Users Make Their Worst Mistakes.

20 Aug 2026 7 minute read 1 comment Cryptosafekit

Yesterday’s rally crushed short positions and brought the excitement back. It also brought back one of crypto’s most expensive habits: rushing. Yesterday finally felt like crypto again. Bitcoin spent part of the day around the mid-$64,000s. Then th...

Your Seed Phrase Can Be Perfectly Offline—and Still Be Weak From Birth

20 Aug 2026 9 minute read 0 comments Cryptosafekit

No phishing. No cloud backup. No photo. A newly disclosed wallet flaw shows that a recovery phrase can fail before the owner ever writes it down. Imagine doing everything right. You create a new crypto wallet. The app gives you a recovery phrase. Yo...

Speaking at HRMCon - Future of Cybersecurity 2030

19 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

At HRMCon 2026 on Sept 10th I’m looking ahead to 2030 as cybersecurity must become increasingly autonomous and continuously adaptive to defend against AI-enabled threats operating at machine speed. Technology will leap forward, but accountability wi...

Address Poisoning: The Copy-Paste Trap

19 Aug 2026 6 minute read 0 comments SimpleSwap

An attack that breaks nothing. No stolen keys, no malicious contract, no signature you did not mean to give. It targets a habit every wallet interface has trained into you, and in one case, it took $50 million in under an hour. Part of Know the Scam...

Your Ledger Doesn’t Need to Be Hacked for You to Lose Everything

17 Aug 2026 8 minute read 0 comments Cryptosafekit

The most dangerous attack on a hardware wallet may never touch the hardware wallet at all. There is a sentence I see constantly after someone loses crypto: “But my Ledger was never hacked.” Sometimes that statement may be completely true. The Ledg...

MEV and Sandwich Attacks: How Bots Skim On-Chain Trades

13 Aug 2026 8 minute read 0 comments SimpleSwap

A loss vector most guides skip, partly because it does not fit the usual villain shape. Nobody steals your keys, nothing is hacked, and the money leaves anyway. Here is the attack, step by step; the scam industry that has grown on top of it; and what...