Hacker compromising web portal Bitcoin.org-DNS-Hijack replaces website with BTC-Doubler fraud-

On Thursday, the pseudonym operator of Bitcoin.org informed the public on Twitter that the web portal was "compromised". The operator, Cobra, explained that the hackers were able to implement a Bitcoin Doppler fraud model, and emphasized that the website would not be available for "a few days".

Website operator Cobra warns that Bitcoin.org was compromised

The mysterious operator of the web portal Bitcoin.org, Cobra, is again controversial. According to the pseudonymous operator of the website, Bitcoin.org was attacked. "Bitcoin.org was compromised", Cobra tweeted early Thursday morning (EST). "[I am] is currently examining how the hackers set up the fraud model on the website. Can fail for a few days."

The fraud model that Cobra speaks is A doubler-fraud to pay with the promise to double the deposit. Of course, sacrifices who deposit funds in the Doubler fraud never receive the double reward, since the hackers simply take all funds after they have accumulated for something valuable.

according to The fraudsters 17,000 US dollar in bitcoin ( btc ) while the wrong page was online. Some said that the fraudulent wallet didn't make as much money as shown on the website.

"3 people sent $ 100 for the context, 1 person sent about 200 US dollars, the rest (0.4). btc ) To be legitimate to make the 'Advertising', so likely [A] the fraudsters' own coins ", a person mentioned .

attack seems to be DNS hijack, Cobra complains to Cloudflare

The operator behind the website nuke.asia said that the takeover was most likely "social engineering".

"Apparently the domain was taken over", Charles from Nuke.asia . "The Whois information has been updated at the time of the hack, the name server + DNS have been changed, and if you try to visit one of the actual pages except the index, you get a 404. It is a completely different website, apart from the domain name."

In the meantime, Cobra Twitter to the company Cloudflare for help. "Bitcoin.org has never been hacked. And then we move to Cloudflare and two months later we are hacked. Can you also explain where you led my traffic? Because my current server had no traffic in the meantime. @Cloudflare @eastdakota," said Cobra. Then someone asked Cobra if his accounts were compromised. Kobra emphasized :