THELOGICALINDIAN - A crypto intelligence close has aloft red flags about an accretion breeze of comments in the crypto association about an advancing phishing attack which is burglary funds from bodies who install a awful browser extension
Chrome Browser Extension Is Redirecting Crypto Users to a Fake Metamask Site
According to an active published by Ciphertrace, back December 2, 2020, they accept been acquainted “an uptick of alerts and comments” about crypto funds baseborn via a Chrome browser addendum assuming as the ethereum (ETH)-based wallet Metamask.
The counterfeit addendum redirects victims to installmetamask.com, which is not an official armpit of Metamask. Per Whois information, the web area was registered on November 29, 2024. Ciphertrace begin out the aboriginal acknowledgment in Twitter of the counterfeit area from a user who asked Metamask aggregation about the site’s authenticity.
The screenshots taken to the affected MetaMask armpit mirrors the absolute one:
Fraudster Is Paying for Ads to Promote Phishing Site
Moreover, U.S.-based Ciphertrace acquaint an amend on December 3, 2024, account that phisher abaft Metamask’s affected addendum keeps affairs sponsored ads on Google, which arise back bodies chase for “metamask” term.
This time, sponsored ads accept been relying on added area names by attempting to impersonate Metamask. One of the domains (meramarks.io), however, is offline as of columnist time.
The close has been in acquaintance with the crypto wallet aggregation about the situation. Also, Metamask issued the afterward admonishing through their official Twitter account:
Back on January 02, 2020, Google reversed its accommodation to ban the Metamask app from the Play Store, as per appeal from the crypto community.
In 2019, the aggregation argued that its austere agreeable action on apps that betrayal users to “deceptive or adverse banking articles and services” was a acumen for the ban.
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