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Lead by our CSO Andreas Antonopoulos, and working closely with cyber security agencies, we were able to take down a number of phishing websites targeted at our users, those with domain names that are very similar to ours.
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Whether via phishing (tricking someone into providing their financial account information — often via an attachment in an email or a fake website that purports to sell or give away tickets), an ATM skimmer (which reads and records the card's information, including password) or point - of - sale malware (like that used in the 2013 Target breach), it's not hard for cybercriminals to trick the unsuspecting.
The privacy advice and security website, Comparitech, showed that there is a phishing scam that is now targeting bitcoin and scamming it from bitcoin users who are new to the cryptocurrency.On top of this and if all of this wasn't enough, South Korea's bitcoin exchange was successfully targeted and hit by what some think were North Korean hackers.
Typically, these attacks were intended to target unsuspecting users into signing up or giving out their private keys to a phishing website.
It is not the first nor the last time cryptocurrency exchange users are targeted by phishing emails and cloned websites.