Entering an invalid credit card number
on phishing sites.
About 10 years ago, my colleagues and I ran an experiment in which we learned 72 percent of college students trusted links that appeared to originate from friends — even to the point of entering personal login information
on phishing sites.
Keys stay in MetaMask, not
on a phishing site!
MyEtherWalletTribe may look very similar to the real MyEtherWallet site, but if you generate your private key
on this phishing site and deposit tokens into the wallet, you will LOSE ALL of your funds.
Otherwise, you may just be entering sensitive information
on a phishing site.
With traditional two - factor solutions like mobile texting or Google Authenticator, once a user enters the 2FA numbers
on a phishing site, an attacker can turn around and use those same credentials to immediately access that account.
Not exact matches
One of the wallets linked to the Bee Token
phishing scam sent ethereum to a wallet associated with Giza, according to etherescan.io, a
site that tracks all transactions
on the ethereum blockchain as shown in the diagram below.
And the
site seems hastily put together, which may make people who are already
on their guard wonder if it's a
phishing site.
Last November, Sophos notes in its report, a Mac user who happened across the wrong Web
site risked getting infected by the OSX / RSPlug malware, which sought to subvert Mac network settings and to force any browser used
on that Mac toward
phishing and ad
sites.
A Ukrainian cybercrime operation has made an estimated $ 50 million by using Google AdWords to lure users
on Bitcoin
phishing sites.
A summary of the incident was posted
on their
site, stating that it was a result of a
phishing scam that occurred over a long period of time.
I was
on the
site for less than a few hours and was immediately being hit with fake profile contacts and
phishing scams.
You may not use the
Site to develop, generate, transmit or store information (including, without limitation, Content) that: (a) in the sole and absolute discretion of Undead Labs, is deemed to be offensive; (b) is deemed unlawful, harmful, harassing, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, sexually explicit, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, nor may you use a misspelling or an alternative spelling to circumvent these restrictions; (c) consists of advertisements, promotions, solicitations, chain letters, pyramid schemes, investment opportunities or other unsolicited commercial communication; (d) is derogatory or harmful to the reputation of the
Site, Undead Labs, or our directors, officers and employees in any way; (e) encourages the violation of any local, state, national, or international laws or regulations; (f) solicits other users» passwords and / or credit card information; (g) is anti-social, disruptive, or destructive, including, without limitation, «flaming,» «spamming» and «trolling»; (h) carries out any action with a disruptive effect, such as causing forum screens to scroll faster than other users are able to read, or setting up macros with large amounts of text that, when used, can have a disruptive effect
on the normal flow of forum postings; (i) contains any user's personal information, including, but not limited to, such user's real name, address, phone number or private e-mail address, except that a user may communicate his or her own personal information in a private message directed to a single user; (j) forges headers or otherwise manipulates identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message (k) in any way obstructs or otherwise interferes with the normal performance of another person's use of the
Site; (l) constitutes harassment or a violation of privacy or threatens other people or groups of people; (m) is harmful to children in any manner; or (n) constitutes
phishing, pharming or impersonates any other person, or steals or assumes any person's identity (whether a real identity or online nickname or alias).
Oh, dear, I sometimes wonder about commenters
on moderated
sites who nevertheless manage to fly under the radar and clog threads with floods of barely agreeable verbiage: Google slaps
phishing warning
on misleading GOP website http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/05/1275366/-Google-slaps-
phishing-warning-
on-misleading-GOP-website#
As discussed in our previous chapter
on data breach nightmares, they have taken a variety of forms, ranging from
phishing scams and social engineering attacks (e.g., using e-mail to trick attorneys to visit a malicious web
site or to be lured into fraudulent collection schemes for foreign «clients») to sophisticated technical exploits that result in long term intrusions into a law firm's network to steal information.
Microsoft also will be turning
on advanced link - checking in Word, Excel and PowerPoint to prevent users from clicking
on links which inadvertently could take them to
phishing or other malicious
sites.
With all the dangerous security threats online today, Microsoft Edge blocks 9 % more
phishing sites and 13 % more malware than Chrome * — helping protect your identity and information; speed matters
on the Web and according to Google's own benchmarks, Microsoft Edge is faster than Chrome **.
When
phishing sites tried to con investors during its recent ICO, Blockstack used its tech expertise to turn the tables
on the tricksters.
In addition to the new hardware, Eero is offering a new subscription service: For $ 9.99 per month or $ 99 per year, Eero Plus provides enhanced Internet security features that prevent users
on the Eero network from accessing
sites associated with malware, ransomware, and
phishing attacks.
This particular daring
phishing scam, reported by ZeroFox, asked users to enter their private keys
on the
site to see if it has been leaked.
From your reports, we take actions such as report
phishing sites to search engines, mark fake social media accounts as malicious
on respective platforms, and submit known malicious public keys to exchanges and blockchain explorers.
If you click
on the link that looks to be the official URL for MyEtherWallet, you will be redirected to a
phishing site aimed to steal your credentials.
For example, a not insignificant number of people were scammed for their private keys when visiting a
phishing site that claimed to allow them to check
on the balance of, or get access to, their bitcoin gold.
If users don't have some sort of link preview add -
on for their browser, it's a great vector to sucker people into jumping blindly into an exploit or
phishing site.
SafeSearch Plus differentiates harmless websites from those laden with malware or potentially unwanted apps, or websites known to be involved in
phishing attempts, based
on the
site's history and contents.
bleepingcomputer.com - A Ukrainian cybercrime operation has made an estimated $ 50 million by using Google AdWords to lure users
on Bitcoin
phishing sites.
So, even if a user clicks
on a
phishing link or gets caught
on a fake
site, Clef still protects the user and their account.
The email seems to be sent from an official Bitcoin wallet or exchange, however when you click
on the link inside the email, you'll be forwarded to a
phishing site or have malicious software installed
on your computer.