Phishing Website Attempts to Impersonate CryptoCoinsNews
As Bitcoin becomes more popular, so do phishing websites. A phishing website is a website that attempts to impersonate a company to gain information about it, or to steal money. One of the more popular methods of phishing is to make a fake website that looks identical to the real one with only a slightly different URL, and then have the user log in with their real credentials. The phishing site then remembers those credentials and logs in to the real website with that information. The phishing site now has full access to the fooled user's account. One of these phishing sites that became....
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Popular Bitcoin websites such as CryptoCoinsNews and BlockChain, have been used as baits in a wave of phishing attempts against Bitcoin owners. With Bitcoin gaining in popularity, financial-related crimes have boomed during the past year. Scammers have been operating through different strategies and tactics, but the impersonation of a company or service, is definitely the most popular one. Warning: when searching for us on Google, 1st result is a phishing link disguised as an ad for http://t.co/0DZyULb31t. On August 14, Bitcoin news website CryptoCoinsNews,com, reported being impersonated....
OpenDNS Security Labs has recently revealed the extent of phishing attacks targeting Blockchain wallet users. Bitcoin has become the most valued financial instrument as it continues to put up a strong performance while other major currencies and markets are registering a slump following the Brexit results. As the value of the digital currency continues to increase, so are the number of phishing scams run by cybercriminals looking for ways to make a quick buck. In a recent blog post, the OpenDNS Security Labs has reported an increase in the number of phishing attempts, targeted towards....
As bitcoin price surges, so have phishing attempts against bitcoin wallets, according to Cisco’s Open DNS Labs blog. A similar phishing spike occurred over the summer in response to a bitcoin price jump. The blog includes a list of domains created by one phishing campaign to spoof Blockchain.info around the holidays. Most of the phishing sites have been set up for phishing purposes. There has also been an increase in the compromise of legitimate sites modified to host bitcoin wallet phishing along with other phishing content. Gmail Accounts Targeted. Another trend has shown campaigns....
San Francisco-based Coinbase is slated to roll out a new feature allowing for device verification this week, according to a security-oriented announcement made on their blog on Tuesday. The device authentication feature is just exactly as it sounds, allowing users of the service to create a list of authorized devices (new devices can be added any time) from which their accounts can be accessed. In other words, if it's not listed, you're not getting in. It's all in effort to better protect the user from the seemingly endless amounts of account phishing and hacking attempts. Coinbase also....
While investigations are underway, the ongoing attack on various crypto platforms may be connected to the compromise of Coinzilla, an advertising and marketing agency. Popular crypto analytics platforms Etherscan and CoinGecko have parallelly issued an alert against an ongoing phishing attack on their platforms. The firms began investigating the attack after numerous users reported unusual MetaMask pop-ups prompting users to connect their crypto wallets to the website. Based on the information disclosed by the analytics firms, the latest phishing attack attempts to gain access to users’....