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In 2018, Google launched a Bitcoin data set as part of the service, and later that year, it added Ethereum as well. It continued to expand its blockchain coverage in February 2019, adding Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Dogecoin, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin and Zcash. The Sept. 21 announcement means that BigQuery now carries data from a total of 19 blockchain networks. In addition to adding these new blockchains, Google has also implemented a new feature intended to make blockchain queries easier to execu...
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The team behind Balancer, an Ethereum-based automated market maker, believes a social engineering attack on its DNS service provider led to its website’s front end being compromised on Sept. 19, leading to an estimated $238,000 in crypto stolen. “After investigation, it is clear that this was a social engineering attack on EuroDNS, the domain registrar used for .fi TLDs,” the firm explained in a Sept. 20 X (formerly Twitter) post. Approximately eight hours after the first warning of the attac...
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Earlier this month, a project called Miss Universe Coin was announced at PBW. Donald Lim, the founder of the organization managing the PBW, said during the event that the PBW will “launch the Miss Universe Coin.” However, weeks after the announcement, the official organization behind Miss Universe denied any association with the coin project and called it a fraud. “There is currently no Miss Universe cryptocurrency or blockchain offering, and these products are in no way involved with the vot...
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MasihGoogle Cloud adds 11 blockchains to data warehouse ‘BigQuery’
In 2018, Google launched a Bitcoin data set as part of the service, and later that year, it added Ethereum as well. It continued to expand its blockchain coverage in February 2019, adding Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Dogecoin, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin and Zcash. The Sept. 21 announcement means that BigQuery now carries data from a total of 19 blockchain networks. In addition to adding these new blockchains, Google has also implemented a new feature intended to make blockchain queries easier to execu...
MasihDeFi activity on the decline, but investment rolls in: Finance Redefined
The team behind Balancer, an Ethereum-based automated market maker, believes a social engineering attack on its DNS service provider led to its website’s front end being compromised on Sept. 19, leading to an estimated $238,000 in crypto stolen. “After investigation, it is clear that this was a social engineering attack on EuroDNS, the domain registrar used for .fi TLDs,” the firm explained in a Sept. 20 X (formerly Twitter) post. Approximately eight hours after the first warning of the attac...
MasihHow is DeFi margin trading getting safer with this cross-chain protocol?
Earlier this month, a project called Miss Universe Coin was announced at PBW. Donald Lim, the founder of the organization managing the PBW, said during the event that the PBW will “launch the Miss Universe Coin.” However, weeks after the announcement, the official organization behind Miss Universe denied any association with the coin project and called it a fraud. “There is currently no Miss Universe cryptocurrency or blockchain offering, and these products are in no way involved with the vot...
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The San Diego State University team uncovered nearly a million dollars were scammed from victims via the Lists feature on Twitter — now called X.
Researchers from San Diego State University in California developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to identify, track and expose free cryptocurrency giveaway scams on X (formerly Twitter).
Called GiveawayScamHunter, the automated system discovered 95,111 scam lists between June 2022 and June 2023 that were created from 87,617 accounts on the X social network.
The researchers used the tool to autonomously extract website and wallet addresses associated with the scams. In doing so, they were able to collect 327 scam giveaway internet domains and 121 new scam-related cryptocurrency wallet addresses.
Related: Blockchain Capital’s X account hacked to promote token claim scam
The first step to approaching the problem involved identifying a new vector of attack for cryptocurrency giveaway scams: Twitter Lists. Due to the permissionless nature of the Lists feature on the social network, it presents a simple networking tool for scammers to exploit.
To determine which lists dealt with giveaway scams, the team trained a natural language processing tool on data from previously identified giveaway scams.
The San Diego State University team uncovered nearly a million dollars were scammed from victims via the Lists feature on Twitter — now called X.
Researchers from San Diego State University in California developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to identify, track and expose free cryptocurrency giveaway scams on X (formerly Twitter).
Called GiveawayScamHunter, the automated system discovered 95,111 scam lists between June 2022 and June 2023 that were created from 87,617 accounts on the X social network.
The researchers used the tool to autonomously extract website and wallet addresses associated with the scams. In doing so, they were able to collect 327 scam giveaway internet domains and 121 new scam-related cryptocurrency wallet addresses.
Related: Blockchain Capital’s X account hacked to promote token claim scam
The first step to approaching the problem involved identifying a new vector of attack for cryptocurrency giveaway scams: Twitter Lists. Due to the permissionless nature of the Lists feature on the social network, it presents a simple networking tool for scammers to exploit.
To determine which lists dealt with giveaway scams, the team trained a natural language processing tool on data from previously identified giveaway scams.
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