There's Some Intense Web Scans Going on for Bitcoin and Ethereum Wallets (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday November 24, 2017 @04:10AM from the search-continues dept.

Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: With both Bitcoin and Ethereum price hitting all-time highs in the past seven days, cyber-criminals have stepped up efforts to search and steal funds stored in these two cryptocurrencies. These mass Internet scanning campaigns have been recently picked up by various honeypots installed by security researchers across the Internet. The first of these, aimed at Bitcoin owners, was picked up by security researcher Didier Stevens over the weekend, just two days before Bitcoin was about to jump from $7,000 to over $8,000.

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Re:Misuse of there's is reaching pandemic levels by markdavis · 2017-11-24 05:32 · Score: 1, Insightful

I hear you and I cringed the instant I read the headline. "There's" means "There is" and that cannot be used with a plural object. Is it so difficult to say "There are"? These are not typos; such errors represent a lack of understanding and writing basic English.