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ForkLog 38 04.11.2021

MetaMask and Phantom Wallet Users Lose $500,000 to Google Ads Scam

As a result of a widespread phishing campaign in search engines, hundreds of cryptocurrency wallet users transferred more than $500,000 to the scammers.

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ForkLog 29 04.11.2021

Analysts quantify investors’ losses from the ‘Squid Game’ token

Analysts from Crystal Blockchain, at ForkLog's request, tracked the wallets of the Squid Game project's organisers and calculated investors' losses.

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ForkLog 5 04.11.2021

Kazakhstan’s bitcoin exchanges and crypto platforms become subjects of financial monitoring

The Senate of Kazakhstan has passed a law classifying cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms as subjects of financial monitoring.

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ForkLog 18 04.11.2021

Hackers steal about $784,000 in crypto from a crypto company via SIM swapping

British resident Joseph James O’Connor, also known as PlugwalkJoe, has been charged in connection with a fraud scheme that resulted in assets stolen from a cryptocurrency company totaling around $784,000 at the time of the theft. The U.S. Department of Justice said.

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ForkLog 33 04.11.2021

Squid Game-inspired token surges 2,280% despite scam warnings.

The price of the SQUID token, launched after the popular Netflix series 'Squid Game', is rising again despite a non-functional website and social media accounts, as well as warnings about a possible scam.

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ForkLog 15 03.11.2021

BTC-Alpha exchange attacked by hackers; user funds secure

A British exchange with Ukrainian roots, BTC-Alpha, came under a hacking attack. Password hashes of users were compromised, but funds were not touched. This was stated by the exchange's CEO Vitaliy Bodnar.

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ForkLog 8 03.11.2021

Coinbase user loses $11.6 million in crypto in 10 minutes

A US court approved a warrant to seize more than $600,000 in bitcoin held in a Huobi Global wallet. Investigators determined that the assets were part of cryptocurrency stolen from a Coinbase account worth $11.6 million. According to Business Insider.

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ForkLog 9 03.11.2021

Russian Interior Ministry and StopNarcotics Agree to Jointly Identify Illicit Bitcoin Transactions

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Central Bank responded to statements by the nationwide StopNarcotics organization about the need to track cryptocurrency transactions linked to drug trafficking.

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ForkLog 9 02.11.2021

Yakutian woman loses 6.5 million rubles to scammers in crypto-trading scheme

A Yakutian woman was defrauded of about 6.5 million rubles by scammers posing as managers of a cryptocurrency trading platform, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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ForkLog 10 02.11.2021

Crypto debt cited as suspected motive in killing of Moscow region police colonel

In Korolyov, a suspect was detained in the murder of the former deputy head of the main economic-crimes directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Aleksey Novoseltsev.

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ForkLog 7 02.11.2021

Fictitious delivery of five mining rigs costs Angarsk pharmacist 339,000 rubles

In Angarsk, a pharmacy employee sought to profit from mining and handed over more than 300,000 rubles to scammers.

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ForkLog 34 01.11.2021

Squid Game-inspired token plunges from $2,856 to near zero in minutes

The price of the SQUID token, launched inspired by the popular Netflix series “Squid Game”, plummeted within minutes from $2,856 to $0.005.

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