Topic: Beware of HACKERS! - page 10. (Read 2637 times)

Some bounty requires its participants to "deposit" certain amount of ETH to be able to withdraw their rewards. And you as participants wanted to get your reward and clicked that link and requires you to enter your private key". And there are a lot of gullible people who can easily fall for this trapped. Just your your common sense, don't send anyone your private key simple as that.

Airdrop has been a source of so much concern to bounty hunters. Some are scams while others if when they pay will not worth more than 5$ which is not worth the gas needed to withdraw it. Then it has been another hacking method which accounts are being compromised. They will send a phishing email of which once you click the link your  private key is gone with them and your account is naked to them. the best is to avoid airdrops totally.

Yes, nowadays many hackers to our surrounding we cannot stop they doing because we don't them, don't know the cycle of their mind but if we can't stop them we are the responsible to escape hackers like be precaution, being alert and ready to your account. Think of it that will not happen if all people are educated and know the importance of everything.

Nowadays there are many people who don't have money to invest in bitcoin but they want to have it. So that some of them have a bad idea on how to get bitcoin and the idea that they have is to hack people who have bitcoin. They don't know who are the people who have bitcoin, therefore they make fake bitcoin wallet and the people who will use that wallet will get their crypto currency or bitcoin. Be wise in choosing your digital wallet, and don't open your digital wallet in websites or browser.

It's true hacker's now a day's are very smart that's why we need to be careful from them like joining any airdrops we should to be careful when filling their form they want to steal our account or our personal information by giving phishing site for them to easily hack us.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are becoming known as game-changers in many different and unique ways, but security isn’t yet sufficient to ensure your coins remain safe. Decentralization is great, privacy is great, but in order to take advantage of these features you’ll definitely need to remember that it also means YOU are the only one who can protect your Bitcoin from hackers, thieves and other bad actors.
Here are some tips hackers use to still bitcoins
1.      Copy/Paste Spoofing – Because the hexadecimal addresses used by cryptocurrencies are nearly impossible to remember, and prone to errors when typing directly, most people use the copy/paste feature when sending Bitcoin or other coins to a wallet address. The problem is that hackers are known to use malware such as CryptoShuffler that acts to replace the address you copied with a different address. Avoiding the theft of your coins is simple if a bit time-consuming. You simply need to check every address to verify it is correct before sending your coins. Even better, use QR codes. And install and anti-malware program on your computer and run it regularly. You can get both Bitdefender and Malwarebytes for free. Finally, don’t ever download and install any app you’re not sure is safe.
2.      Fake Mobile Apps – The selection of apps in the Google Play and iTunes stores continues growing exponentially, and because these services are run by Google and Apple we tend to trust the apps by default. This is a mistake as hackers are now known to publish fake apps that steal user data under names that appear to be authentic. The most well known is the Poloniex hack which surfaced in October 2017.  Follow these steps to remain safe from this type of hack: Make sure the service you are using really offers a mobile app – if that is the case, the app should have a link on the service’s official website. Pay attention to app ratings and reviews. Be cautious of third party apps triggering alerts and windows appearing to be connected to Google – misusing users’ trust for Google is a popular trick among cybercriminals. Use 2FA for an additional (and often crucial) layer of security.
3.      Slack Bot Hacks – Slack is an online messaging system that has becoming increasingly popular in large organizations, especially in the technology space. One interesting feature of Slack is the use of bots, automated programs that can do a myriad of tasks including finding and organizing information and even ordering ice cream. Unfortunately hackers have taken to bots on Slack as well, and now there are bots that will warn you about a security breach on your wallet, directing you to a URL that then asks for your login information or private keys. Avoid these like the plague and report them if they contact you.
4.      Dangerous Browser Extensions – Efficiency is always a good thing, and there are browser extensions that promise to increase your efficiency on certain trading sites. The problem is that these browser extensions might also be reading and storing everything you type while using them. Find another way to be efficient and avoid the browser extensions to remain safe. In fact, avoid ANY browser extension related to cryptocurrencies. (there are some exceptions like Metamask for Chrome)
5.   Free Airdrops of Coins – An airdrop is a free distribution of coins that is used either to reward existing coin holders or to bring more users in to a coin in an effort to bootstrap the service behind the coin or token. On the surface it seems great because you’re getting something for nothing, and some airdropped coins have gone on to increase in value by 1000’s percent. Of course with the possibility of stealing personal information hackers have joined in to offer airdrops when there are none by directing you to a URL where they steal your personal information or private keys. Some require you to download a wallet specifically for the airdropped coins, and that wallet includes malware. Be very careful if you want to participate in airdrops and take everything with a huge degree of skepticism.

i hope this would help you a little bit.

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WOW. We need upgrade our security. Don't be deceived, Be a smart person. Be careful to the airdrop who force you to join with them, this is can steal your privacy account or privacy information.

Actually in our current time there are a lot of hackers we found in this fields therefore all we need to do is to be much alert and aware specially be careful in every steps or decisions we've made or we are making in the near future to make us much safest and has a capability to avoid in a lot of hackers that surroundings to us. Make sure that our private key is safe and the only person that knowing this is only us as a owner.

Hackers means a lier and a people who doesn't want to get tired to get what they want to achieved in their own life. They are all smart enough to hack all the things they want too. So be careful, and protect our own site or e-mails coz that's the best thing what we have to do.

Hackers are very rampant on online especially crypto is on trend now and that makes  it vulnerable by stealing coins without knowing it so just very vigilant about it. Always keep in mind that safekeeping your private key is always your responsibility and never give it to others. Mostly hackers used phishing method and they very used on Airdrops and Telegram bots asking private keys to claim earned tokens and mostly newbies always got victimized so just be safe and always check legit sites from URL above.

hackers are very smart people, so copying other people's websites is an easy job for them. my advice if you want to use an online wallet or want to enter using a private key, then be careful, I always save the original website in notepad or on my gmail to be safer

The harsh and evil deeds of scammers has been rampaging the cryptocurrency atmosphere creating unbelievable and sad tales to victims. Just Last week, a friend of mine lost a wallet containing over $5k worth of tokens to the cold hands of scammers. He has been devastated the last few days. This is just one of the several cases out there. My advice is, try to be careful with the kinds of websites you put your wallet details into, double check if you are truly accessing the genuine site of your host wallet client. Try to move your valuable coins to a separate wallet and lock the wallet away. Only access it when need be. If you are trading on any DEX website, create a different wallet for such and only use that wallet for that particular purposes. Scammers could target anyone but we must try to limit our vulnerability.

Thank you very much for the advice you gave, it is very useful for me. Yes, keeping our e-mails is very important, to avoid the crime of hackers. we all need to be careful.

Thank you very much for the advice. I think that a few dozen users of this topic you have saved from losing their money

These scammers are everywhere and continue to look for means to steal information from innocent people. One has to be extremely careful these days. Double check everything carefully at all times to avoid issues. God help us all.

be careful of those hackers.  Those who attempts to steal all your fruit of hard work.  Knowing that they are smart enough to earn using their abilities it makes me wonder why they have to hack all those hard earned fruits of ours.

in the era of sophisticated technology like today it is very high risk with the existence of external factors that have a negative impact such as hackers. we must be more aware of these factors because of course it will be very detrimental to us

Most of the people here are very love to get an airdrop so their wallet can be filled with a lot of tokens, they said. But, it turnover the fact.

In cases where a website is always https, but one day it has an unencrypted connection error, which may be due to the following reasons:

The certificate has expired but the website has not been renewed.
Website changes the server intentionally, making the parameters on the certificate do not match.
Website is changed server is not targeted, may be hackers navigate or have taken control of the website.

I think where ever be in the internet, there also have hackers. So does Bitcoin. Furthermore, Bitcoin is a huge profit which makes people can become richer and richer or not. And, Hackers are inevitable. The most important thing I just suggest for you that you must be careful. Specially you  choose some wallets to store bitcoin.