Kaspersky Lap carried out a study published on its website on the 14th of the current month where it states that hackers raised more than two million dollars using the phishing technique to deceive users with new offers projects. Initials of Currencies or better known as ICO, with the purpose of requesting cryptocurrencies to investors interested in the anticipated access of new tokens.
According to the study, so far this year the increase in the use of social networks for these frauds with cryptocurrencies was quite remarkable, with twitter being the most used. The most used method to carry out these frauds is the spoofing of accounts of celebrities such as the accounts of Vitalik Buterin and Elon Musk, these being the accounts most impersonated this quarter.
The research indicates that the calculated figures represent an approximate of more than a thousand ETH wallets, with ether (ETH) being the most popular cryptocurrency among cybercriminals.
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