Investors lost $3.7 billion in July as Chinese penny stocks crashed following social media pump-and-dump schemes, with FBI ...

Separate research by security vendors McAfee and Marshal Software suggests that the industry is winning the war on spam, with two of the most common forms of spam-related scams on the decline.

An X account hacking spree has fueled a successful pump-and-dump scheme for the $HACKED Solana token, with people rushing to buy the coin. The hacked accounts include ...

An ex-Google tech lead and YouTuber with more than 1.1 million subscribers has been accused of engineering a multi-million-dollar “pump-and-dump” scheme. Patrick Shyu, known pseudonymously as TechLead ...

Ether (ETH) surged to a two-week high of $2,850 on Feb. 17, marking a 7% intraday gain. The rally followed a sharp spike in Ethereum network transaction fees, which jumped from $0.70 to $70 for a ...

For years, the party never seemed to end but last week, the music finally stopped. Eight of social media’s most-followed faces of finance, four of them from the Houston area, were arrested. All are ...

Spammers have launched the first mass MP3-attached pump and dump spam campaign, which security experts say could be used to distribute malware. The spam contains no text or subject header while the ...