Ethereum under siege: $700K stolen in 6 days from Slack and Reddit phishing scams

Posted by valentinebm on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @11:39PM
from the ibtimes.co.uk dept.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ethereum-under-siege-scammers-make-700000-6-days-slack-reddit-phishing-attacks-1629866

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Re:Ethereum under siege: $700K stolen in 6 days from Slack a... by notyourwork on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:22AM (#14750274)

Same scam, different medium. Nothing to see here.

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Re:Ethereum under siege: $700K stolen in 6 days from Slack a... by jaclaz on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @05:52AM (#14751266)

Allow me to disagree.

I would guess that the typical Ethereum user is not a Peoria middle-aged housewife (with all due respect for all middle-aged hosewives of course) but rather someone deeply involved in the tech scene, possibly a programmer or however an up-to-date with modern technologies "advanced" user.

So the fact that a number of this "elite" can be seemingly easily scammed does represent IMHO some news.

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Re:Ethereum under siege: $700K stolen in 6 days from Slack a... by kronos29296 on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @02:05AM (#14750456)

Yet another phishing scam. Only targeted at ethereum users. Is it just or is such block chain wallets easier to steal from?

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Re:Ethereum under siege: $700K stolen in 6 days from Slack a... by futhey on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @03:31AM (#14750786)

Phishing is of course not a vulnerability specific to Ethereum, but there is a frenzy of demand for it.

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