A fake sponsored Uniswap result on Google drained over $400K, proving search ads can become crypto wallet traps.
Key takeaways
- Fake Uniswap Google Ads Prove DeFi Cannot Outsource Trust to Search Engines
- More than $400,000 vanished because a trader trusted the wrong top result on Google Search. That is the real scandal here: not that phishing exists, but that a...
- An experienced crypto trader known as @ika_xbt lost their full portfolio after clicking a sponsored Google result that mimicked the real Uniswap website, according...
- This was not a Uniswap smart contract exploit. The protocol itself was not compromised. That matters. The attacker did not break the exchange. They rented visibility f...
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