THELOGICALINDIAN - According to a column from the official MyEtherWallets Twitter annual letters advance that users of the accepted Ethereum arrangement interface accept been targeted by a phishing email The counterfeit accord requests users accord up claimed advice that could put their crypto backing at accident of theft
The email capacity a declared aegis aperture that occurred during January 2024. Affected users are requested to assurance in to their wallets application their clandestine key or berry byword and in accomplishing so are handing over this awful acute advice to the attackers.
MyEtherWallet Users Urged to Stay Vigilant Over Security
In a Tweet from beforehand today, the aggregation abaft the MyEtherWallet (MEW) Ethereum blockchain interfacing affairs alerted users to a phishing email that attempts to ambush bodies into advice their clandestine keys. The Tweet contains a awning attempt of the email itself.
It states that MyEtherWallet fell victim to a DNS advance during January of this year. According to the counterfeit email, alone MEW users accessing their wallets application either their clandestine key or berry byword were impacted by the attack.
Those users afflicted are requested to appointment the website and download their Keystore file. They are again encouraged to acknowledgment to the email requesting added advice on accepting their wallets. The counterfeit accord concludes with the abrupt warning:
“If you do not amend and defended your wallet, you are active the accident of accident your funds stored on your wallet.”
Attention #MEWfam,
There's addition phishy email activity about allurement users to accord up claimed information. Don't accept the hype!
#1. We will never email you aboriginal (only acknowledgment to support).
#2. We will never ask for your clandestine key (or added acute info).
#3. Be skeptical! pic.twitter.com/654TLIt5ar— MyEtherWallet | MEW (@myetherwallet) February 4, 2019
In the Tweet alerting users to the scam, MyEtherWallet offered admonition to advice bodies to abstain falling victim to phishing attacks back application the Ethereum blockchain interface. Users were reminded that MyEtherWallet will never email aboriginal – alone in acknowledgment to abutment requests – and they never ask for clandestine keys or berry phrases. Finally, users are brash to consistently exercise attention back faced with requests for such acute information.
One Twitter user responded to the announcement, commenting on the clandestine approach acclimated by those abaft the phishing email scam:
Jesus that's dirty.
— Arseniy ✌️ Ivanov (@freeatnet) February 4, 2019
The betray draws on previous MyEtherWallet aegis compromises to accord it an air of legitimacy. A agnate DNS advance to that abundant in the email occurred aftermost year adjoin the blockchain interface program. Many of those afflicted abundant to abatement victim to the aegis affair aftermost April begin that the Ether and added tokens stored application the MEW account were baseborn by those abaft the attack.
This is the second such phishing advance adjoin a accepted cryptocurrency account provider already this year. In the antecedent example, users of the peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading website LocalBitcoins were directed to a phishing website from the official forum where their login accreditation were stolen. This acquired the account to briefly attenuate its compromised forum. However, abounding users had their wallets emptied afore activity could be taken. The absolute amount of baseborn funds is alien but it is believed to be in balance of $28,000.
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