The general director of the largest cryptocurrency book of the world of Binance Richard Teng spoke about scammers who are associated with the customers of the exchange by phone, posing as Binance employees. The goal is to gain access to accounts and steal cryptocurrency.

According to Richard Teng, under the guise of support employees, scammers convince the exchange customers to change the settings API (mechanisms that allow two software components to interact with each other). Attackers refer to the need to conduct a “planned update of security systems”. As soon as the attackers get access to accounts, they transfer all funds to their cryptocurrencies.

Employees Binance Do not ask passwords or other sensitive data for security by phone, the general director assured. If any suspicious activity is detected, customers should contact the official channels of the platform support, the tank advised.

The most effective measures to protect against scammers in Binance are the use of two-factor authentication and the use of Passkey technology (authentication method, which allows you to enter applications and sites using a fingerprint, face recognition or PIN code). Binance recommends to customers after a suspicious call by phone immediately withdraw all the API keys and temporarily block the account.

Earlier, experts in the field of cybersecurity of Crowdstrike reported that the new malicious program of Shamos, created by the group of hackers Cookie Spider, abducts the data of crypto -cores from devices on MacOS.