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Hackers Target $8.7B Mt. Gox Bitcoin in Sophisticated Phishing Attack - The Cryptocurrency Post
TL;DR Hackers exploited Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN feature to send an on-chain phishing message to the Mt. Gox wallet holding 79,956 BTC, baiting owners to a fake Salomon Brothers site. The bogus legal notice on-chain lured dormant wallet holders to surrender credentials and personal documents, risking access to the massive Bitcoin stash. This sophisticated attack turns blockchain transparency into a phishing vector and underscores rising threats; dor…
The past never dies in the blockchain. More than ten years after the Mt. Gox scandal, a bitcoin address containing the equivalent of $8.7 billion resurfaces... targeted by an attempt to phishing as discreet as it is ambitious. At the crossroads of cybercrime and digital memory, this new episode raises a troubling question: Are the forgotten treasures of the bitcoin condemned to become the eternal prey of modern crooks? Article Mt. Gox: 8.7 billi…
New Bitcoin Scam Unfolds: Old Wallets, Fake Lawyers - Coin Surges
BitMEX Research sounded an alarm on 8 July after spotting what it calls “an ongoing Bitcoin scam.” In a X post the analytics desk described a wave of tiny “dust” transactions sent to pre-2012 Bitcoin addresses that still contain large, untouched balances. Each transaction carries an OP_RETURN message that reads: “NOTICE TO OWNER: see salomonbros[.]com/owner_notice.” One of the targets is the famous 1Feex wallet holding almost 80,000 BTC stolen f…
Scammers are using OP_RETURN to redirect to a website that requests personal information. Read more
New Bitcoin Scam Unfolds: Old Wallets, Fake Lawyers
BitMEX Research sounded an alarm on 8 July after spotting what it calls “an ongoing Bitcoin scam.” In a X post the analytics desk described a wave of tiny “dust” transactions sent to pre-2012 Bitcoin addresses that still contain large, untouched balances. Each transaction carries an OP_RETURN message that reads: “NOTICE TO OWNER: see salomonbros[.]com/owner_notice.” One of the targets is the famous 1Feex wallet holding almost 80,000 BTC stolen f…
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