Cointelegraph Website Hacked to Promote Fake Token Airdrop
Cointelegraph has fallen victim to a front-end attack that briefly turned its website into a phishing trap, luring unsuspecting users with a fraudulent token airdrop offer.
The breach, confirmed by Cointelegraph, allowed attackers to inject a deceptive pop-up window into the homepage, promoting a fictitious “CoinTelegraph ICO Airdrop” and advertising fake CTG tokens. Users were promised a reward of $5,500 in exchange for connecting their wallets — a tactic designed to harvest sensitive wallet data and potentially drain funds.
To lend credibility to the scheme, the attackers referenced a non-existent audit allegedly conducted by blockchain security firm CertiK. The ploy closely resembles a recent phishing campaign that targeted users on CoinMarketCap using similar wallet-connection prompts.
Cointelegraph has urged all visitors not to click on the pop-up, not to link their crypto wallets, and under no circumstances to share personal information on the site while the issue is being addressed.
The company is currently investigating the breach and has not yet disclosed how long the malicious code remained active or whether any users suffered financial losses.
Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coindoo and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
