Those of us riding the Bitcoin (BTC) wave have watched interest in the cryptocurrency rise especially as the price of a single coin has now reached over $37,000.
Bitcoin, Ethereum (ETH), and now Dogecoin (DOGE) -- thanks to a few tweets by
Elon Musk -- have all come onto the radar of would-be traders, but as with every investment, scam artists are seeking means to cash in.
Cryptocurrency is certainly not immune to scams or other threats. Cryptocurrency exchanges hit with cyberattacks can end up losing trader funds; exit scams still occur, and regulators are constantly battling fraud.
We're unlikely to see any end of crypto-related scams anytime soon, and in a new warning posted by Kaspersky, a new scheme is now
targeting users of Discord.
According to Kaspersky researcher Mikhail Sytnik, scam artists are now entering Discord servers and are sending private messages to users that appear to be from new, up-and-coming cryptocurrency exchanges. [...]
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