In recent months, there has been a significant increase in hacks and scams, crooks and pirates increasingly creating more sophisticated and more difficult to detect attacks. Pirates are targeting victims in almost all sectors of the cryptography market, constantly evolving their tactics and expanding their scope to exploit vulnerabilities wherever they find them. In a recent incident, a pirate gang compromised the Crypto and NFT CoinmarketCap data aggregator.
Coinmarketcap was compromised
In a blog article on June 21, the CoinmarketCap.com technical team confirmed that its cryptocurrency and non-bubilible tokest aggregation platform was slightly compromised earlier this morning, and the pirates exploited the platform to promote a fake malicious pop-up. A few minutes later, the technical team assured that users of Crypto and NFT they are actively working to correct the bug.
🚨 Safety alert
We know that a malicious pop-up encouraging users to “check the portfolio” appeared on our site.
⚠️ Do not connect your wallet.
Our team is actively investigating and works to solve the problem.
– Coinmarketcap (@coinmarketcap) June 20, 2025
Founded in 2013, CoinmarketCap.com is a website that serves as a full resource for data, news and cryptocurrency analysis. The platform also provides information on a wide range of cryptocurrencies, including their market capitalization, their commercial volume and their price fluctuations. CoinmarketCap also follows the exchanges of crypto, offering an overview of their sales volume, their liquidity and their traffic. CoinmarketCap follows more than 2 million cryptocurrencies.
Coinmarketcapp also has a dedicated section for NFT statistics, where you can find information on the popular NFT collections, including market capitalization, recent sales data, floor price, etc. CoinmarketCap also provides tools to monitor and analyze NFT market trends and individual collections. CoinmarketCap allows you to filter and sort NFT data according to various criteria, such as the category, platform and market capitalization.
Crypto and NFT users were emptied
CoinmarketCap has more than 1.2 million users worldwide for its portfolio portfolio. The website itself receives more than 340 million monthly visitors. The platform also has a large presence on social networks, reaching nearly 5 million people on Twitter every day. In this case, the pirates knew that the hacking of the platform would certainly benefit. In less than two hours after hacking, several users have already been drained. At the time of publication, CoinmarketCap did not correlate the Malveillant Pop-Up phishing link.
#Pecshieldalerlet The front of @Coinmarketcap was hacked, displaying a false contextual window urging users to “check the wallet”.
Do not connect your CMC wallet.– Peckshieldalert (@pecshieldalert) June 21, 2025
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