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Doxxed crypto hackers are resorting to ‘Airbnb hopping’ — using fake identities to rent out Airbnb properties — as they look to stay one step ahead of kidnappers and rival criminals, reports 404 Media. Criminals have reportedly thrown bricks, shot up homes, and attempted to kidnap the unmasked cybercriminals, while some have been hunted by rivals looking to rob them.  Messages seen by 404 Media appear to show hackers trying to purchase existing Airbnb accounts with positive reviews that will allow them to carry out the scheme. Other messages show threatening messages from rival criminals, with one reading, “Keep Airbnb hopping before I get to u.” 404 Media reports that at least one member of a SIM-swapping group that allegedly stole bitcoin also relies on Airbnb hopping.  Airbnb host adds ‘no crypto mining’ rule after tenant installs 10 rigs Read more: Ireland grows its crypto stash with seized dark web bitcoin Airbnb is currently a popular target for crypto criminals. Last we...

Also Read: Donald Trump’s Surprise Return to X Fuels Surge in Trump NFT Sales advertisement Dropbox Reveals Crypto Miner Misuse The company revealed that it found users pooling in cloud space to use for crypto mining and more particularly for Chia, a cryptocurrency with a market cap of $250 million. In a statement, Dropbox said the some of the offenders were also reselling the pooled spaces. “Unrelated individuals pooling storage for personal use cases, or even instances of reselling storage,” it said. Interestingly, the company began to be suspicious of the misuse when some of these accounts were frequently using up thousands of times more storage compared to the genuine business customers. It said that a growing number of these suspicious “customers” were buying its Advanced subscriptions not to run a business or organization, but for use case like crypto mining related activity. Hence, the company decided to remove the unl...