Cointelegraph Website Hacked in Fake Airdrop Phishing Attack

Crypto Cutelegraph He confirmed that his website was threatened in front-end exploit used to promote the fraudulent Airdrop token and users’ theft.

It said In a statement of X on Sunday evening, he was aware of the “fraudulent pop -up” and “actively working on repair”.

“Don’t click on these pop -up windows, attach your purses [or] Enter any personal information, ”he warned.

Unscramble has approached Cutelegraph for comment.

Pop-up falsely claim that users have been selected for gifts of the new token, allegedly part of the “fair initiative for opening” Caintelegraph to reward loyal readers.

He showed the inbearing price of the token and promised users tokens worth less than $ 500 if they connected their cryptocurrency wallet. She also claimed that the security company Certik audited an intelligent contract.

The method used reflects a similar front-end attack on the CoinMarketcap Aighing Aightens Aighing Aighing Award, which occurred only two days before.

In this case, visitors to the website saw pop -up windows requiring a wallet connection for verification purposes. Coinmarketcap later confirmed The malicious code has been injected into the site and has been removed.

Both incidents represent a growing wave of phishing attacks focused on crypto platforms through compromised user interfaces.

In these fraud, the victims are attracted to the connection of wallets under false pretexts – such as receiving chips or confirming identity – and then look at their accounts exhausted by the attacker.

According to Blockchain Intelligence, TrM Labs, phishing schemes and attacks based on malware -based infrastructure based on infrastructure, which in 2024 stole 70% of $ 2.2 billion stolen in cryptological hacks.

Cocentlegraph attack comes only a few days after scientists in the area of ​​security published A massive data dump containing more than 16 billion stolen login data, including access to platform accounts like Google, Telegram, Facebook and GitHub.

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Edited Sebastian sinclair