The email addresses of users of the popular cryptocurrency wallet MyEtherWallet are phishing attacks in order to steal their personal data and funds. Service developers have published an example of such a letter from hackers.
Attention #MEWfam ,
Give your personal information. Do not believe the hype!
#one. We will never email you first (only reply to support).
# 2. For your private key (or other sensitive info).
# 3. Be skeptical! pic.twitter.com/654TLIt5ar– MyEtherWallet.com (@myetherwallet) February 4, 2019
“We never initiate correspondence with users and do not ask for private keys,” the service team warned.
MyEtherWallet’s developer tweet caused concern among users, but they noted that their security partners PhishFort and Segasec quickly monitor and eliminate all possible threats.
'S Yesterday #phishing a tweet the Received a lot of Attention and generated some sinking concern, But <br> we'd like to point out: #MEW , with security partners @PhishFort and @segasec_com is Constantly Bringing down to monitoring and scams! Can you guess how many per day? https://t.co/iFkA0Ag2Pl
– MyEtherWallet.com (@myetherwallet) February 5, 2019
Since June 2018, Segasec has intercepted more than 550 active hacker attacks.
Since December 2018, PhishFort has stopped 188 phishing sites, an average of three or four sites per day.
Recall, recently, Parity Technologies experts discovered a critical vulnerability in the JSONRPC protocol, which could potentially lead to cracking of the MyEtherWallet, MyCrypto and Infura services.
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