United Kingdom Cracks Down on Crypto Phishing
09 Feb, 2024 ● Crypto News
The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), a law enforcement unit specializing in analyzing and gathering intelligence on fraud and finance-related cybercrime in the United Kingdom, has taken action to block 43 web domains associated with fraudulent activities.
According to an update from Pete O’Doherty, the temporary commissioner of the City of London Police, the NFIB identified a spoof email address falsely claiming to be from the cryptocurrency site blockchain.com.
Subsequently, the authorities uncovered an additional 42 web domains, including “actionfraud.info” and “department-fraud.com,” and promptly blocked these addresses upon discovery.
The NFIB has urged individuals who have fallen victim to cybercrimes to report them through official channels and the hotline.
As of December 2023, the police unit disclosed that nearly 300,000 malicious websites had been removed due to reports.
Some phishing attempts involved fraudulent claims such as the recipient winning a Tupperware set.
Phishing remains a significant concern within the crypto community.
On January 20, hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor detected a security breach compromising the data of 66,000 users.
Following the incident, at least 41 users reported receiving phishing emails requesting sensitive information to access their crypto wallets.
In a separate incident, a large-scale phishing campaign targeted the email addresses of numerous crypto investors.
On January 23, the crypto community identified a phishing attack perpetrated by fraudsters posing as representatives of major Web3 companies.
These hackers sent out an email campaign promoting fake token airdrops while masquerading as entities like Cointelegraph, WalletConnect, Token Terminal, among others.
The origin of this phishing attack was traced back to a breach experienced by the email marketing firm MailerLite.
On January 24, the company revealed that hackers exploited a social engineering attack to gain control over Web3 accounts.
A team member responding to a customer inquiry inadvertently clicked on a link that redirected them to a fraudulent Google sign-in page.
Unaware of the deception, the employee logged in, granting the attackers access to MailerLite’s admin panel.
Nansen, a blockchain analytics firm, disclosed that the attackers' primary wallet received at least $3.3 million in total inflows since the attack occurred.
Sources:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-phishing-web-domains-blocked-police-london-uk
https://twitter.com/actionfrauduk/status/1755168384247791807
