Once the user shares their secret phrase, they’re redirected to the real website, however, their account and all of their savings are now in the scammer’s hands.
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Then in April alone there were nearly 50,000 attempts – that is nearly half of the previous quarter in a single month.įraudsters mimic the original crypto wallets’ websites and lure victims to enter a personal seed-phrase, a secret phrase of 12 or 24 words that ensures the security of the wallet, along with a password and private key. Throughout the first quarter of this year, Kaspersky experts discovered about 107,000 attempts. In 2022, Kaspersky products have recorded 193,125 phishing attempts aimed at potential crypto investors or users interested in cryptocurrency mining.
Crypto wallets are the primary target for scammers because they are the initial place of storage for cryptocurrency and deal with large amounts of virtual money. With the boom in digital currencies observed over the past five years, Kaspersky experts have seen various cybercriminal tactics used to steal cryptocurrency – from luring victims with gifts sent by crypto exchanges to distributing Trojanized DeFi wallets. Crypto wallets are the primary target for scamming and malicious activity. The number of such attempts almost reached 50 000 in April, which is half of the indicators for the first quarter of 2022. Since the beginning of 2022, Kaspersky products detected and prevented almost 200 000 attempts to steal users’ digital currencies and credentials to their wallets via phishing. Kaspersky experts took a close look at the phishing pages aimed at potential crypto investors as well as the malicious files that are distributed under the names of the 20 most popular cryptocurrency wallets.
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