Traditional pig-butchering scams, rooted in China and amplified during the pandemic, involve criminals establishing false romantic relationships through dating apps or social media. These deceptive ...

Online criminals responsible for “pig butchering” scams are increasingly using fraudulent decentralized finance (DeFi) applications to steal from victims, a report from antivirus firm Sophos suggests.

DeFi platforms bake risk scoring into swaps, using real‑time contract scans to stop honeypots, rug pulls and spoofed tokens before funds vanish. The Web3 ecosystem is facing a sharp rise in scams and ...

What are crypto liquidity pools? Crypto liquidity pools, which facilitate decentralized trading and other financial operations in decentralized finance (DeFi), are collections of cryptocurrency funds ...

Cryptocurrency users lost nearly $2 billion to scams, rug pulls and hacks in 2023, roughly half the amount of last year, but a sign that the industry remains susceptible to security risks, researchers ...

Enabling the growing adoption of decentralized trading, the new programmatic token security solution was built to support decentralized exchanges (DEXs), traders, trading bot operators and other ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, was proposed in 2008, the goal was simple: to create a digital currency free from banks and governments. Over time, that idea evolved into ...