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Crypto Scams
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Cryptocurrency scams, wallet-draining campaigns, fraudulent crypto platforms, payment abuse, and related security risks.
SourTrade Malvertising Makes Browsers Build Malware in Memory
Confiant says the SourTrade malvertising campaign impersonates TradingView, Solana, and Luno, then uses service workers and shared workers to make a victim’s browser assemble a unique Windows malware file in memory. The technique weakens hash-based detection and gives crypto users another reason to avoid sponsored-download paths.
Hidden Web Prompts Turn AI Agents Into Payment Targets
Zscaler found malicious websites using SEO poisoning, hidden HTML, JSON-LD metadata, and crypto-payment flows to manipulate browsing AI agents. The findings show why agent deployments need transaction limits, source checks, and runtime controls before they are allowed to browse the open web or move money.