Online Security

A rug pull is one of the fastest ways to lose money in crypto: a team hypes a token, collects buyers' money, then drains the liquidity and disappears. The good news is that most rug pulls leave the same fingerprints. This guide walks through the seven warning signs and the exact checks you can run before you buy.

"Not your keys, not your coins" is crypto's hardest-learned lesson. If your assets sit on an exchange or a phone connected to the internet, they are exposed. This 2026 guide explains cold storage in plain terms: hot vs cold wallets, how hardware wallets work, how to protect your seed phrase, and the

Crypto gives you full control of your money - which means no bank can reverse a bad transaction. This guide shows you how to avoid crypto scams: the most common schemes, the universal red flags, and a concrete checklist to protect your funds, your accounts, and your seed phrase.

A project called Monero Rings positions itself as an "improved version" of Monero, promising fast transactions, scalability, improved mining and even non-fungible tokens. All of this sounds wonderful, however, as it turned out, Monero Rings is a fake hard fork of Monero that steals funds from users.

A bug has been discovered in the Ledger Nano S hardware crypto wallet in the operation of software version 1.1.3 with the Monero 0.14 client, related to an incorrect address for the return of funds. This was reported by the developers of the Ledger Nano S cryptocurrency wallet, who asked device owners to refrain from

Programmer Warith Al Maawali has discovered a security breach in the Coinomi cryptocurrency wallet, as a result of which the Coinomi crypto wallet sends users' passphrases to the Google spell-check service in unencrypted form, thereby opening up access for scammers to private information and giving them the

With the arrival of the cryptocurrency era came new threats from hackers as well – hidden mining, or cryptojacking. Previously hackers made a living by stealing bank card data and extortion, but now the demand for cryptocurrency has given hackers a new trade – the hidden mining of coins on computers and mobile devices

New malicious software has been discovered that is capable of operating through various web browser extensions. The malware called Razy disguises itself as a browser extension and steals digital currencies from infected devices...

The hacker who created a seed-phrase generator for IOTA cryptocurrency wallets in order to steal users' keys was detained by Europol on January 23. According to current data, the damage from his fraudulent activity is estimated at more than 10 million euros...

A special virus has been discovered in China aimed at attacking mining equipment created by the company Bitmain. It is noted that the virus attacks Antminer from Bitmain and extorts 10 BTC from their owners under the threat of overheating the device and causing it to fail...