How Hackers Are Targeting Cryptocurrency

Posted on November 3, 2021 | Infrastructure and Data Protection

With financial institutions increasingly offering cryptocurrency vehicles to their clients, John LaCour, CTO of PhishLabs by Fortra, looks at what these institutions need to do to protect their systems and clients from hackers.

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"The crypto market is crowded right now, and phishers know that. Fake Google ads are becoming a more popular phishing method and these phishing pages are now getting ranked above a legit crypto or wallet homepage in a Google search. It's easy to miss if you aren't specifically looking for it. When the first search result is a phishing site, a user clicks on it, needs to recover a password, and the next thing you know your user is now a victim. "

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