{"id":33112,"date":"2025-06-23T06:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=33112"},"modified":"2025-06-23T06:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:16:47","slug":"cointelegraph-hit-by-front-end-exploit-fake-phishing-airdrop-pop-up-on-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=33112","title":{"rendered":"Cointelegraph Hit by Front-End Exploit, Fake Phishing Airdrop Pop Up on Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Crypto media outlet Cointelegraph has confirmed its website was compromised by a front-end exploit on Sunday, with attackers injecting a malicious pop-up that falsely claimed to offer \u201cCoinTelegraph ICO Airdrops\u201d and \u201cCTG tokens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fake banner urged readers to connect their crypto wallets in exchange for nearly $5,500 worth of tokens, citing a \u201cfair launch\u201d event and a bogus CertiK audit to lend legitimacy to the scam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not click on these pop-ups, connect your wallets, or enter any personal information,\u201d Cointelegraph warned in a post on X, adding that it was \u201cactively working on a fix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victims are typically tricked into connecting wallets for token claims, identity verification, or loyalty rewards \u2014 only to have their funds siphoned immediately after.<\/p>\n<p>The tactic mirrors a nearly identical exploit on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/06\/21\/coinmarketcap-briefly-exploited-with-wallet-phishing-pop-up-message\">CoinMarketCap two days earlier<\/a>, where attackers embedded similar code to serve wallet phishing prompts. <\/p>\n<p>In both cases, the attack relied on hijacking trusted platforms to bypass user skepticism \u2014 turning news and data sites into unwitting vectors for wallet drainers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/06\/21\/coinmarketcap-briefly-exploited-with-wallet-phishing-pop-up-message\">CoinMarketCap Briefly Exploited With Wallet Phishing Pop-Up Message<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto media outlet Cointelegraph has confirmed its website was compromised by a front-end exploit on Sunday, with attackers injecting a malicious pop-up that falsely claimed to offer \u201cCoinTelegraph ICO Airdrops\u201d and \u201cCTG tokens.\u201d The fake banner urged readers to connect their crypto wallets in exchange for nearly $5,500 worth of tokens, citing a \u201cfair launch\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-33112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}