Bitcoin Phishing Increases as Interest in Cryptocurrency Grows
As bitcoin and ether prices surged in recent months, interest in cryptocurrency has grown. From investors, speculators, entrepreneurs, libertarians, and curious newcomers — a large swath of people have decided to join in on the fun. However, not everyone that has involved themselves in the last few months have done so with good intentions in mind. Phishing Attacks Increase Following Bitcoin Price Surge. It seems the recent success of digital currency has attracted the attention of the ill-intentioned and criminally-minded. Apparently, malicious agents have been attempting to benefit from....
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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....
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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....