Hardware wallet provider Trezor in the sights of a phishing attack

Hardware wallet provider Trezor in the sights of a phishing attack

The provider of cryptocurrency hardware walls Trezor said on Saturday that he was investigating a data protection injury to his opt-in newsletter, which is hosted on the US marketing platform.

A fraudulent email warning before a violation began last week, according to User . Trezor then sent a warning by Twitter demands its users on not to open any emails that come from the phishing domain "noreply@trezor.us".

"Mailchimp has confirmed that her service was compromised by an insider who has been targeting crypto companies," said Trezor. "We managed to switch the phishing domain offline offline. We try to determine how many email addresses are affected."

The company also said that it would not communicate via its newsletter until the situation was solved.

Questions were brought about why the community Not already top level domains (TLD) with the endings .us, .net and .com has registered to prevent such attacks.

still, Use TLD registration slightly by imitating the domain name and changing a single sign like "Trez0r" to deceive victims.

This type of attack neither is a threat to the cryptographic security of the hardware wallet, nor is it the first example of being attacked by a crypto wallet company. The competing hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger suffered a data leak from his marketing database, In July 2020 led that his users became the goal of phishing attacks and other forms of fraud.

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The contribution Hardware Wallet Provider Trezor Targeted in Phishing Attack is not a financial advice.