I was seven words away from being spear-phished

Re:I was seven words away from being spear-phished by fencepost on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @11:22AM (#20285883)

The two questions that immediately jumped to my mind on this are

1) does Coinbase's user base skew more towards Firefox than the average, possibly because of perceived better security/privacy and a desire for that among cryptocurrency users?

2) did the zeroday impact Tor browser users, and does Coinbase have a lot of those?

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Re:I was seven words away from being spear-phished by easymodex on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @12:07PM (#20286281)

I don't think Coinbase users are looking for security/privacy. To be specific, Coinbase is considered a novice cryptocurrency user platform since they have some relatively hefty fees in exchange for being simple to use AKA "It's for normies".

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Re:I was seven words away from being spear-phished by hotdogs on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:08PM (#20287556)

The original spearphishing targeted Coinbase employees, not their users. It seems once that failed, the people behind this cast a wider net.

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