{"id":10581,"date":"2024-02-09T18:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-forge-blockchain-com-email-for-phishing-scheme\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T18:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:02:22","slug":"hackers-forge-blockchain-com-email-for-phishing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-forge-blockchain-com-email-for-phishing-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Forge Blockchain.com Email for Phishing Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from the <span data-descr=\"National Fraud Investigation Bureau\" class=\"old_tooltip\">NFIB<\/span>, a police unit in the United Kingdom, <a href=\"https:\/\/democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk\/documents\/s197472\/Pol_12-24_Commissioners_Update_PAB%20Feb%2024%20vFINAL.pdf\">reported<\/a> the blocking of 43 fake domains associated with phishing activities.<\/p>\n<p>Among these, law enforcement identified a counterfeit email address purportedly belonging to the cryptocurrency exchange Blockchain.com. This was used by criminals to contact platform users.<\/p>\n<p>NFIB did not specify how many of the exchange&#8217;s clients fell victim to the phishers.<\/p>\n<p>Other blocked domains include \u201cactionfraud.info\u201d and \u201cdepartment-fraud.com\u201d, which mimic government portals for tracking cyber fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that nearly 1500 phishing domains related to cryptocurrency investments were registered in the Russian-speaking internet in 2023. Some of these referenced exchanges like Binance and CommEX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from the NFIB, a police unit in the United Kingdom, reported the blocking of 43 fake domains associated with phishing activities. Among these, law enforcement identified a counterfeit email address purportedly belonging to the cryptocurrency exchange Blockchain.com. This was used by criminals to contact platform users. NFIB did not specify how many of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[996,44,810],"class_list":["post-10581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-com","tag-cybercrime","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}