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Blast, an Ethereum layer 2, is shutting down. Before anyone can leave, withdrawals are paused for about a week. That pause is where fake help tends to show up. Blast says withdrawals are unavailable right now, so any site or account offering a faster way out is offering something that doesn't exist. When they reopen, the normal Blast interface works until Oct 26. Have you checked whether you left anything on Blast? Steps and dates in the reply.
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Microsoft's official X account, followed by more than 13 million people, reposted a crypto token promotion on Thursday. Microsoft says it confirmed unauthorized access, secured the account and removed the posts. The account was real. The post wasn't. If a big brand "announces" a token, open the company's own website yourself before you buy. The checks are in the reply. What do you check first when a famous account posts about a token?
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BitMart has published its plan for users who still have balances on the exchange. It proposes two new tokens: a Restitution Token tied to recoveries from its 2021 hack, and a Continuum Token. Neither has been issued. BitMart targets its court application for December 2026 or January 2027, and the deadline to choose comes after approval. A page offering those tokens today is a red flag, not a head start. More below. If you had funds on BitMart, which option would you want explained first?
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MetaMask says it is responding to a security incident in part of its infrastructure. So far, it says it has found no immediate threat to MetaMask wallets, and it is exiting affected staking validators as a precaution. A problem in the company's systems is not a reason to type your recovery phrase anywhere. No real fix asks for it. More below. Where do you check first when a wallet you use reports an incident?
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Apple doesn’t take iPhone Duo preorders until October 16. A fake “preorder” page with a $500 voucher is already out there. According to Malwarebytes, opening it on an iPhone that missed updates can be enough to start an exploit attempt aimed at wallet data, Notes and saved passwords. Update before you shop the launch. Is Automatic Updates turned on for your iPhone?
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An email says someone recorded you through your webcam. It shows one of your old passwords and wants about $2,000 in bitcoin within 48 hours. There is no video. The password comes from an old data breach, and the same email goes out to many people at once. Paying buys nothing: there is nothing to delete. Have you ever checked whether your email appears in a data breach?
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Someone sent our inbox the login to an account “holding” 4,958,110.88 USDT. It was addressed to “Mike.” It isn’t a lucky mistake. It’s a known scam: you log in, see a fortune, and to withdraw it you’re asked for a fee, a deposit or a “VIP” upgrade. The balance was never real. The fee would be. Has a message like this reached you? Where: DM, SMS or WhatsApp?
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Apple patched an iPhone flaw on Sept 28 that it says may have been exploited in a highly targeted attack. If your iPhone is still on iOS 26, the fix is iOS 26.7.1, and you don't need iOS 27 to get it. In Software Update, the two show up as separate options. SlowMist links the flaw to attacks it tracks against wallet data. No crypto theft has been publicly tied to it. Which iOS version is your iPhone on right now?
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A warning said opening a web page could pull the seed phrase off iPhones running anything from iOS 13 to 26.5. SlowMist, which analysed the attack, says it hasn't confirmed a single victim of the sample it studied. Its strongest evidence covers iOS 18.4–18.6.2, and those flaws are already patched. The fix is the boring one: update. When did your iPhone last install an update?
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Bitget says no private key was compromised. About $387.5M still left the exchange. By Bitget's account, the attacker used a flaw in a third-party security product to get internal credentials, then sent withdrawal orders that its own wallet system carried out. On an exchange, the keys are only one of the doors. Would "private keys were not compromised" have reassured you before reading this?
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