Coinbase Stops A Dangerous Attack From A Skilled Hacker

Binance’s hack made a lot of crypto enthusiasts freak out during the past days.

Binance’s KYC data was hacked, and the info has been uploaded into a Telegram Group that’s called “Find Your Binance KYC.”

There are more images of people holding their IDs for the exchange’s verification process which have been posted in Telegram groups. As expected, this triggered a huge panic among users.

It’s been also reported that, according to an investigation, the KYC data leak that’s involving data from Binance traders is linked to the Binance hack in May that resulted in more than 7,000 BTC.

Coinbase just stopped a dangerous attack

Now, Coinbase said that it was able to stop an attack from a highly skilled hacker.

In a new blog post, Coinbase said that the hacker began sending emails to more than 12 of its employees back in May.

The Daily Hodl writes that the emails seemed to be from Gregory Harris – a research grants administrator at the University of Cambridge.

“This email came from the legitimate Cambridge domain, contained no malicious elements, passed spam detection, and referenced the backgrounds of the recipients. Over the next couple of weeks, similar emails were received. Nothing seemed amiss.”

On June 17, there’s an email that came from the same address and contained a malicious link.

If the link is opened, it could install malware that’s abler to take over the device.

“Coinbase Security quickly discovered that these emails were anything but ordinary — they were all part of a sophisticated, highly targeted, thought out attack that used spear-phishing/social engineering tactics and, most importantly, two Firefox 0-day vulnerabilities,” according to the official notes.

It’s been reported that in just a few hours, Coinbase Security detected and blocked the attack.

Other than this, Coinbase has recently made headlines again following reports that the exchange is exploring new coins.


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