What is the Flipper Zero campaign?
Experts have found a new phishing campaign that targets cybersecurity professionals and hacking enthusiasts. The campaign steals cryptocurrency and the personal information of victims.
Flipper Zero is behind the attack, it’s a portable multi-tool for pentesters, cybersecurity experts, and hackers. The tool is used to find any type of access control system, radio protocols or RFID, NFC, Bluetooth, etc.
The tool began as a big-hit Kickstarter project but met with various obstacles. Result? Demand weighed more than supply- giving a big opportunity to cybercriminals. Today, experts are noticing various fake online stores that sell Flipper Zero and fake Twitter profiles promoting the stores. One such account uses typosquatting to fool people by cleverly replacing a letter in the spelling because the “L” in Flipper is an uppercase “i.” Such accounts are currently very active, providing immediate responses to customer queries.
Stealing crypto and data via Flipper Zero
People who fall under this trap will in the end get redirected to the phishing checkout page, where they are asked to submit a lot of sensitive data- email id, name, and residential address. Additionally, there’s only one way to pay on these pages- cryptocurrency (bitcoin or ether).
But the experts are saying that the wallets displayed on fake shops are empty, which can only mean two things, either the scammers k
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