In the world of cryptocurrency, attacks on users' wallets are slowly becoming everyday. However, sometimes it happens that there is an attack that surprises everyone – it was this time.
According to Cointelegraph, attack took place on January 10 around 11:00 UTC. The victim was the anonymous owner of Trezor's cryptocurrency portfolio (it's such a safe gadget to store cryptocurrency like a flash drive with a password).
The cheaters used a method called social engineering – it's a clever kind of fraud, where the attacker pretends to be a trusted person to extort classified information.
Attack course:
- Drought impersonated Trezor's technical support. Probably contacted the victim via e-mail, chat or phone – pretending to help solve some cryptocurrency problem.
- He convinced the victim to give a "phase seed" (a special string of 12 or 24 words, which is like the key to the entire cryptocurrency portfolio).
- When the impostor got access to the wallet, he immediately took control of it.
- He quickly transferred huge amounts: 1459 bitcoins (values around $ 139 million) and over 2 million litecoins ($153 million). Together, it's over $282 million.
- To cover his tracks, money were transferred to different networks blockchainof which ethernum, ripple (XRP) and Litecoin, using transaction anonymization tools. Then most have been transferred to Monero, which provides super anonymity of the transaction and is difficult to track.
On attack ZeroShadow, which monitors blockchain, reacted. In just 20 minutes they blocked about $700,000 from the theft. Unfortunately, the thieves at that time, they managed to hide most of the cryptocurrency in the super anonymous Monoro.
Source: Cointelegraph.com
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