Lead · Scam Tactics
The person draining your wallet might not know how to code — they just rented a toolkit and bought a few ads. That's the most unsettling part of this criminal business: it no longer needs a genius hacker, just a marketing budget.
Derek Osei
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August 13, 2026
The crypto hacker most people picture is a lone technical mastermind hunched behind a screen, fluent in programming languages, personally writing the attack code from scratch. That image has drifted considerably from reality — the wallet-draining attacks that caused massive losses throughout 2026 were, in many cases, carried out by people who may never have written a single line of code in...