THELOGICALINDIAN - On Thursday the bearding abettor of Bitcoinorg told the accessible on Twitter that the web aperture has been compromised The abettor Cobra explained that the hackers were able to apparatus a bitcoin doubler betray archetypal and fatigued that the armpit would be bottomward for a few days
Website Operator Cobra Warns Bitcoin.org Has Been Compromised
The abstruse abettor of the web aperture Bitcoin.org, Cobra, is already afresh amidst by controversy. According to the bearding abettor of the website, Bitcoin.org has been attacked. “Bitcoin.org has been compromised,” Cobra tweeted aboriginal Thursday morning (EST). “[I am] currently attractive into how the hackers put up the betray archetypal on the site. May be bottomward for a few days.”
The betray archetypal Cobra speaks of is a doubler scam that attempts to attract bodies to drop a atom of bitcoin with the affiance of acceleration the deposit. Of course, victims who drop funds into the doubler betray never get the bifold reward, as the hackers artlessly booty all the funds afterwards they accept accumulated to article worthwhile.
According to one account, the scammers were able to get $17,000 in bitcoin (BTC) while the affected folio was online. Some accept said that the betray wallet did not accomplish as abundant money as the website displayed.
“For context, 3 bodies accept beatific $100, 1 being has beatific about $200, the rest(0.4 BTC) seems to accept been beatific as a way to accomplish the ‘giveaway’ assume legitimate, so acceptable [a] scammer’s own coins,” one alone mentioned.
Attack Seems to Be DNS Hijack, Cobra Complains to Cloudflare
The abettor abaft the website nuke.asia said that the takeover was best acceptable “social engineering.”
“It appears the area was taken over,” Charles from nuke.asia said. “The WHOIS advice was adapted at the time of the hack, the nameservers DNS changed, and if you try to appointment any of the absolute pages added than the basis you’ll get a 404. It’s a absolutely altered website save for the area name.”
Meanwhile, Cobra has additionally been tweeting to the aggregation Cloudflare for assistance. “Bitcoin.org hasn’t been hacked, ever. And again we move to Cloudflare, and two months after we get hacked. Can you explain area you were acquisition my cartage too? Because my absolute server didn’t get any cartage during [the] hack. @Cloudflare @eastdakota,” Cobra said. Again addition asked Cobra if his accounts were compromised. Cobra stressed:
What do you anticipate about Bitcoin.org accepting compromised by hackers who replaced the site’s capital folio with a doubler scam? Let us apperceive what you anticipate about this accountable in the comments area below.
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