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The Fake Trading Bot That Drains Your Wallet the Moment You Run npm install

3 Jul 2026 4 minute read 0 comments SimpleSwap

A wave of supply-chain attacks in 2026 is quietly rewriting the threat model. The infrastructure that lasts will be the kind that never holds your funds in the first place. On the first day of July 2026, a developer somewhere cloned a GitHub reposito...

Anatomy of a Crypto Illusion: the 2$ Billion Hyperverse fraud

24 Jun 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Sdom

A vision of a digital utopia, promises of steady passive income, and celebrities hired on demand. This is how HyperVerse was born-a global financial machine that, according to official findings by U.S. law enforcement agencies, defrauded investors of...

๐ŸŒ How anonymous developers fatten "crypto pigs".

23 Jun 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Aaronaa

Have you ever heard of the Chinese term "shฤzhลซpรกn" (ๆ€็Œช็›˜)?Literally translated, it means "pig slaughter." This is a ruthless, psychological method of fraud, where the victim isn't robbed immediately. First, they need to be "fed" โ€“ given a sense of...

Factory of Illusions: I am Academy

23 Jun 2026 5 minute read 3 comments Sdom

Expensive suits, luxury villas, private jets, and the promise of escaping the 9-to-5 corporate grind. Sounds like the American dream? For thousands of young people worldwide, the dream of financial freedom offered by the training platform IM Academy...

How to spot a crypto scam before it's too late

4 Jun 2026 2 minute read 0 comments ABC Kryptowalut

The scams got smarter. The red flags didn't. Here's what to look for. A bank CEO lost $47 million to a pig butchering scam. Not a naive retiree โ€” a professional whose entire career was built around financial risk. That should reset your assumptions a...

The Coin Pumped Hard โ€” But Nobody Could Actually Sell

26 May 2026 2 minute read 1 comment BrandyCrypto

Sometimes crypto teaches you valuable lessons. And sometimes crypto just slaps you directly in the face. This was one of those times. A while ago, I bought a small speculative position in a coin called BDAG. Not because I thought it was fundamentally...

Celsius Scams Continue Years Later

14 May 2026 2 minute read 2 comments WinterYeti

If some of my readers remember, Celsius was a very popular centralized staking platform for major crypto coins that offered some very attractive staking bonuses, both as rewards as well as sign on bumps. Celsius, a crypto asset platform, offered cust...

Clickbait Passive Income Nonsense - It's Spreading

2 May 2026 1 minute read 1 comment WinterYeti

I've been noticing a generic trend in writing about passive income, and it shows up in multiple platforms. So, that's telling me people are just looking at stats for traffic and then trying to repeat the sane nonsense that someone else has written to...

When Crypto-Lending Goes Wrong: Celsius, Four Years On

28 Apr 2026 5 minute read 0 comments rah

I still remember waking up on 13 June 2022 and checking my crypto. What I saw felt like a punch in the stomach. Celsius had frozen all operations and especially withdrawals. I had gone in with a lot of funds and was constantly loading it up with more...

The Dev files - File 004/OneCoin

26 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Pu5chk1n

In the mid-2010s, seemingly a new of opportunity began to spread in crypto. People gathered in conference halls, watched presentations, and bought into a vision of the future of money. A new cryptocurrency. Simple. Accessible. Profitable. For million...