As hackers often steal your cryptocurrency? Response researchers
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From January to April, the crooks stole $ 1.36 billion in cryptocurrency in the spring report of the Central Bank. During this time the hackers have made 22 successful attack on the exchange.
Most Often, fraudsters steal money through phishing because criminals gain access to sensitive data traders. The information contained in the report of the research company Group-IB. With the study examined .
How to protect coins against fraud
According to analysts, from mid-2016 hackers using phishing stole $ 115 million. Most scammers fake websites of the ICO projects, as well as stealing private keys to the wallets with coins and the withdrawal of the funds.
Another option is sending a request to transfer money. In this case, the user clicks the link, enters their password on a phishing site and lose coins.
According to the aggregator Etherscamdb.info at the beginning of 2018, the network has worked 2.8 thousand phishing sites. The vast majority of them were copies of pages of the ICO projects, as well as the most popular purse to Air — MyEtherWallet.
MEW is one of the most popular in the world of wallets for storage of Ethereum cryptocurrency and token based on it. So he undergoes the highest number of phishing attacks.
Phishing is a pretty common issue, agree with the results of the study, respondents edition analysts. According to the representative of kleptomanka Wirex Novel Zabuga, this success of hackers due to the rush by some investors who try to buy coins at the best rates.
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