# Crypto price manipulation explained: How cybercriminals influence the market

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/explained/crypto-price-manipulation-explained-how-cybercriminals-influence-the-market
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Crypto-price-manipulation-explained-How-cybercriminals-influence-the-market?index=0x680e71134501a33172c93594afd8e429e2053f0c60e983d1496592c6f1346ecaeeb9b71b
Submitted by misha on 2025-04-27 UTC, 2 upvotes, 2 comments

## Comments

**misha**: > When a coin moons out of nowhere and then crashes just as fast — it is rarely pure market magic

**misha**: > One scam doesn’t just hurt victims — it damages the entire ecosystem … Every fake pump, every engineered crash, every orchestrated scam chips away at the foundation of the entire crypto ecosystem: trust.

Think this is a better quote, capturing the core of the problem.