There were pop-up windows with messages on the Cointelegraph website, as if users were chosen to participate in Airdrop, supposedly launched by Cointelegraph for the reward of loyal readers. The hacker ads indicated the fabricated price of token, and users were promised crypto assets in the amount of about $ 5500 if they connect their cryptocurrencies. Fraudsters claimed that Certik, specializing in the security in the field of blockchain, conducted an audit of smart contracts.
The Cointelegraph team warned readers so that they would not press these pop -up windows, do not connect their addresses and enter any personal information, since users would redirect on phishing sites. Leaving personal information on them, hackers will be able to steal confidential data, and then gain access to crypto actures. Security experts in Cointelegraph are actively working on the correction of the situation.
A similar attack was held a few days ago on the CoinmarketCap analytical platform. Visitors to the site saw pop -up windows with a request for verification. Later, specialists of CoinmarketCap Confirmedthat the malicious code that has already been deleted was introduced on the platform.
Fraudsters use different ways to implement phishing schemes. Recently, security experts in SCAM Sniffer discovered an advertisement for fake applications of the decentralized AAVE platform. Moreover, announcements from scammers appear in the first places for issuing a Google search engine.
Source: Bits
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