Bitpay Targeted By Phishing Attacks Again
Phishing attacks are nothing new on the internet. While most are relatively amateurish (the African Princess) some are quite well put together and will fool most people if you are not paying attention. Phishing incidents have been happening more and more frequently in the virtual coin industry and the latest group targeted seems to be customers of BitPay, one of the largest cryptocurrency payment platforms in the world. There has been an email phishing attempt spoofing BitPay’s late payment notification email. As always, BitPay’s security is the main priority. There has not been a breach....
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