{"id":485921,"date":"2025-09-08T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=754469"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:30:25","slug":"crypto-phishing-losses-surpass-12-million-driven-by-ethereum-focused-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/crypto-phishing-losses-surpass-12-million-driven-by-ethereum-focused-exploits\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Phishing Losses Surpass $12 Million, Driven by Ethereum-Focused Exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/phishing-scams-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Crypto Phishing Losses Surpass $12 Million Powered by Ethereum-Focused Exploits\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>There was a sharp rise in phishing scams involving cryptocurrency during August, with losses exceeding $12 million as hackers began to leverage Ethereum EIP-7702-based exploits. Scam Sniffer reported that over 15,000 victims were affected by these phishing scams, an increase of 67% compared to July\u2019s figures. Crypto Phishing Scams Surge: Ethereum-Focused Exploits on the Rise [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a sharp rise in phishing scams involving cryptocurrency during August, with losses exceeding $12 million as hackers began to leverage Ethereum EIP-7702-based exploits. Scam Sniffer reported that over 15,000 victims were affected by these phishing scams, an increase of 67% compared to July\u2019s figures. Crypto Phishing Scams Surge: Ethereum-Focused Exploits on the Rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":485922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}