The worst thing in your situation is that you've been phished for two times in a row which I think can be called a serial phishing attack. As far as I've understood your ETH has been stolen not via the coindesk article but via the fake copy (coịndesk actually is not coindesk). You visited the fake coindesk website at first and while considering it as a real one, you probably saw no reasons to doubt while following to the fake MEW website. The article on the fake coindesk website was also spreading a FOMO about airdrop and might made you hurry up so you were less attentive. The hackers also managed to make a good copies of the website and got ssl certificates somehow which also could helped them a lot to trick you.

It's good that you decided to share your experience and tell about your losses because phishing attacks become more and more tricky with every day passed. The only weapon against them is attentiveness and double or even triple checks.

It's interesting, where did you get that first link to the fake coindesk website?