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An award-winning investigative journalist who has reported on human trafficking and crypto scam centers in Cambodia was arrested by the country’s state military police on Monday. Authorities charged Mech Dara with “incitement to disturb social security” over a series of social media posts, according to the local news outlet CamboJA. He was subsequently placed in pre-trial detention at Kandal provincial prison. Dara was reportedly stopped at a toll booth by six police cars and arrested under a warrant while traveling with his family. At the time, his charges were unknown. On September 29, Dara shared images of a pagoda in Ba Phnom that was damaged by quarry work. Local authorities reportedly claimed the posts were inciting “social disorder” while a “government-aligned” news outlet called his posts “fake news.” The photos are now deleted.  Google Maps street view of the steps leading to the pagoda pictured by Dara. Read more: Thousands enslaved in Cambodia to run fake ICOs and...

A phishing website posing as the Ethereum search tool Etherscan has been spotted on search engines DuckDuckGo and Bing as one of the first Etherscan search results. Scam Sniffer flagged the Etherscan phishing site today and warned users on X (formerly Twitter) that, “Your assets could be at risk from a simple mistake. Stay safe and alert!”  The phishing site utilizes the same logo as Etherscan and describes the basics of the tool. DuckDuckGo and Bing also list the phishing site as the second search result just below the legitimate Etherscan site. The phishing site can be spotted by the extra dash in its web address which rewrites “etherscan” as “et-herscan.” DuckDuckGo and Bing still list the Etherscan phishing site at the time of writing. Read more: Ethervista ‘unconsciously hacked’ hundreds of times by bot Scam Sniffer highlighted the problem of phishing websites and noted that someone lost almost $521,000 to a fake permit signature crypto scam. ...

Security experts issue warnings as malicious actors distribute fake Calendly bot clones on X, posing as crypto journalist s. According to an X post from blockchain security firm SlowMist, con artists are targeting Chinese-speaking victims by pretending to be crypto journalist s. The scammers send direct messages, including links that mimic the appearance of a legit Calendly bot, for scheduling interviews. SlowMist Security Alert Recently, victims have been phished by people pretending to be journalists. The scammer often spoke broken Chinese and sends a normal-looking Calendly link. However, upon clicking, the link’s name changes to “Calendly.”, with an additional dot. This… https://t.co/PN3sANKknH pic.twitter.com/Sy7WNNGTJv — SlowMist (@SlowMist_Team) January 8, 2024 However, once a victim grants authorization to the fake clone of the bot, they unwittingly give control of their X account, providing scammers with the ability to distribute phishing links through their po...