A fraudulent website mimicking Uniswap is stealing money from several cryptocurrency wallets. A well-known blockchain analyst, known as “b-block,” reports that scammers have already taken at least $400,000 worth of cryptocurrency.
Users were urged to rely only on official links and verify protocols through DefiLlama.
Uniswap Tops List of Most-Targeted Platforms
This update follows a report last month from the security group SEAL, which found a significant increase in harmful Google Ads aimed at people involved in cryptocurrency. These ads were designed to look like legitimate DeFi platforms, wallets, and trading apps in order to steal users’ money.
SEAL recently stopped over 356 harmful Google ad links that were used in cryptocurrency scams. These scams specifically aimed at users of platforms like Uniswap, Morpho Finance, PancakeSwap, Hyperliquid, CoW Swap, and 1inch.
The report indicates that attackers compromised Google advertising accounts – either by hacking them or obtaining them through fraud. They then used techniques like cloaking, fingerprinting, and complex website layering to avoid Google’s security scans. To appear authentic, many of these malicious ads were hosted on legitimate Google services, such as sites.google.com and docs.google.com, making them harder to detect in search results.
SEAL found that the most frequent types of malware used in these attacks were crypto drainers like Inferno Drainer and Vanilla Drainer. These tools work by deceiving people into approving harmful transactions or giving up their wallet recovery phrases on fake websites, which lets attackers steal their cryptocurrency.
SEAL reported that the sophisticated technology behind these attacks—like Cloudflare Workers, Arweave, and various redirection and proxy systems—allows attackers to capture Ethereum requests and track what users are doing as it happens.
Uniswap was the most frequently copied platform in a recent wave of online scams, appearing on 41% of the malicious websites researchers tracked. These scams resulted in at least $1.27 million in confirmed and suspected losses between March 13th and 30th, but security experts believe the total amount stolen was much greater.
Rampant Phishing Campaigns
Recently, scams connected to Uniswap have largely involved fake websites and misleading ads on Google. Separately, earlier this year, Ledger users were targeted by a phishing campaign using deceptive emails. This attack happened after a data breach at Global-e, a company Ledger uses for online sales, which revealed customer email addresses and order details.
Scammers sent emails falsely claiming that Ledger and Trezor had combined. They tricked users into visiting fake websites to ‘migrate’ their wallets, requesting sensitive 24-word recovery phrases. These fake sites were designed to look just like the official Ledger and Trezor websites.
Recently, Ripple‘s Chief Technology Officer, David Schwartz, cautioned users about a phishing scam. The scam involved fake security alerts that looked like they were sent from Robinhood’s official email system. These emails seemed real because hackers took advantage of a flaw in Robinhood’s account creation process, allowing them to pass security checks.
The scam message alerted users to a login from an “iPhone 17 Pro,” urging them to check for unusual activity using a button labeled “Review Activity Now.” This button led to a page designed to steal their usernames and passwords. Robinhood confirmed the phishing attempt, but assured customers that their systems remained secure and no money was lost.
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2026-05-27 03:02