Threat Actors Taking Advantage of FTX Bankruptcy 

Authored by Oliver Devane 

It hasn’t taken malicious actors lengthy to make the most of the current chapter submitting of FTX,  McAfee has found a number of phishing websites concentrating on FTX customers.  

One of the websites found was registered on the 15th of November and asks customers to submit their crypto pockets phrase to obtain a refund. After coming into this phrase, the creators of the positioning would achieve entry to the sufferer’s crypto pockets and they’d probably switch all of the funds out of it. 

Upon analyzing the web site code used to create the phishing websites, we observed that they have been extraordinarily just like earlier websites concentrating on WalletConnect clients, so it seems that they probably simply modified a earlier phishing package to focus on FTX customers.  

The picture under exhibits a code comparability between an internet site from June 2022, and it exhibits that the FTX phishing web site shares most of its code with it.  

McAfee urges anybody who was utilizing FTX to be weary of any unsolicited emails or social media messages they obtain and to double-check the authenticity earlier than accessing them. If you’re uncertain of the indicators to search for, please try the McAfee Scam training portal (https://www.mcafee.com/consumer/en-us/landing-page/retention/scammer-education.html) 

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