CoinGecko and Etherscan users were targets of phishing attacks yesterday. Those on the crypto data aggregator websites were prompted to connect their MetaMask កាបូប to the nftapes.win website.
CoinGecko tweeted a warning to its users to be wary of any prompts asking them to connect their wallet to the site, saying that it is a scam.
Etherscan also rehashed this warning to its users, while revealing that it had disabled third-party integration into the platform immediately.
The websites have since updated their information, explaining the reason behind the attack. Investigations show that the phishing code was integrated into the ad from a popular crypto ad network, Coinzilla.
According to Coinzilla’s សេចក្តីថ្លែងការណ៍នេះ ការវាយប្រហារដោយឆបោក lasted for less than one hour, and its team would “manually review and recreate all the creatives used by our clients” to avoid a future recurrence. It also mentioned that it would be working to identify the person behind the attack.
Source: https://beincrypto.com/crypto-data-aggregator-websites-targeted-in-new-phishing-attempts/