Recently, London police reported that they blocked 43 crypto phishing web domains. Recently London police said they discovered a spoof address. And they got this address basically from blockchain.com. They even found 42 more crypto phishing web domains and blocked them. The UK-based National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) has blocked 43 web domains for being linked to fraudulent activities. This organization is basically a police unit based in the United Kingdom. And this police unit works mainly to analyze and collect fraud and finance-related cybercrime intelligence.
First they discovered a fraudulent email address. And this fraudulent email address was discovered by US based NFIB. They discovered this fraudulent email from crypto site blockchain.com. The temporary commissioner of the City of London Police confirmed this information. Authorities also said they have registered 42 other web domains, including "actionfraud.info" and "department-fraud.com", in addition to the fraudulent email. But in this case when they found such fraudulent sites they blocked them immediately.
We know that currently digital currencies especially cryptos are not yet completely hack free and they are being hacked again and again. Especially since they are relatively new and online based, they often fall prey to such scams. But an important point here is that such fraudulent sites have been blocked by the authorities and at the same time they have requested the victims of cyber crimes to report them through their official channels and hotlines. The number of such malicious websites is huge. For example, London Police Unit said that they have removed many malicious websites till December 2023 alone and that number is around 3 lakh. Some phishing attempts include claiming that the email recipient has won a Tupperware set.
We see various hoaxes in the crypto community from time to time. Many scammers in particular focus on these digital currencies in their scams. They adopt new methods as traps. Phishing, hacking, and scamming continue to be common problems in crypto. Even hardware wallet maker Treasure identified a breach in its security on the 20th of last month. This manufacturer Trezor has compromised the data of about 66 thousand users in its security Many users have even reported receiving such phishing emails to the authorities. Those who were requested to access their crypto wallet.
Nowadays such incidents have become quite common and widespread phishing campaigns have flooded the email addresses of many crypto investors. Such fraudulent phishing attacks were detected last month. And such fraudulent phishing attacks happened from major web3 companies Hackers set up scams pretending to be from companies like Cointelegraph, WalletConnect, Token Terminal and others and try to lure users into their nets and they basically get the traps and inform the users that they have organized a token airdrop and they send out an email campaign with such information.
In fact, just as we are becoming digitized these days, scammers are also digitizing themselves. They even keep finding new cheating traps. Sometimes they take control of different accounts and even take control of all the web 3 based properties. Even last month there was such an incident where the company MailerLite faced a phishing incident. Hackers were able to gain control over Web3 accounts using a social engineering attack . However, you can read this news to know more about it.
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