Recently, the cryptocurrency suffered the largest cyberattack to date. The Bybit exchange was hit by the “largest cryptocurrency heist in history, with approximately $1.5 billion in Ethereum tokens stolen in a matter of hours,” Forbes said.
After the Bybit hack, phishing campaigns steal crypto
Security vendor BforeAI said around 600 phishing campaigns surfaced after the Bybit heist, which was intended to steal cryptocurrency from its customers. In the last three weeks, after the news of the biggest crypto scam in history, BforeAI found 596 suspicious domains from 13 different countries.
Dozens of these malicious domains mimicked the cryptocurrency exchange itself (Bybit), most using typosquatting techniques and keywords like “wallet,” “refund,” “information, “recovery,” and “check.”
According to BforeAI, there were also “instances of popular crypto keywords such as ‘metaconnect,’ ‘mining,’ and ‘airdrop,’ as well as the use of free hosting and subdomain registration services such as Netlify, Vercel, and Pages.dev.”
Malicious free domains used for attacks
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