This seems to bear a lot of resemblance to the HubSpot hack I posted about a couple of weeks ago here:
Another day, another data leak - more phishing likelyAccess gained through an employee's account, gaining access to a large number of corporate accounts, focusing on crypto related businesses and clients, mass phishing emails rapidly following the breach. I wonder if the two are related through more than just timing?
Regardless, it gives a clear picture of what centralized services are doing with your data - handing it off to a bunch of third parties and doing no due diligence whatsoever in to those third parties' security. You can expect this kind of behavior from sketchy entities like BlockFi, but you expect better from hardware wallet manufacturers.
Yes i was also astonished to see that another employee id was used in hacking the data of the customers and this time the target is big corporates who must be having million of users but the fact is they won't disclose it easily to the public in order to maintain their reputation in the market and profitability could be affected.
There was past vulnerability in Trezor wallet through which one youtuber was able to hack it and get $2 million also which i remembered and he said the PIN and key were copied and moved to RAM which he used as hacking techniques.But after it was viped out.
These companies depending on the third party softwares are already going into full risk of data breach anytime the company is hacked like this one or employee selling the information to some hackers for money.Using these services always have a risk and the main problem is people's fund are at stake.
More common things in these attacks are they are performing slowly to tackle the situation as in this case they have known this one on 26
th March that some bad actor was gaining access to the software they should have taken instant actions to detect the fraud sending notice to all their clients to be safe and issue warning.Recently Ronin network was hacked for $625 million and they were unaware about it for 5 days until one person tries to withdraw 5k ETH so what security levels they all are having? Seriously these phising attacks are increasing like the first one for Ledger and now Trezor.
Let’s see if there are reports on the keylogger (and RAT) are confirmed, which would make it quite a sophisticated phishing+malware combo attack. I’d have expected BleepingComputer to have detected it by now, as they are normally quite thorough in their tests.
This attack was more of well executed phising attack as they got access to the API and then mailing list directly without accessing the MailChimps customer portal.
Meantime, we’ve got some alleged cases of victims. This one claims having lost 55K quids to the phishing:
There will be many more with such amounts and this hack might be big until we have the real amounts disclosed but don't think it will be public.Have also seen many people on twitter complaining about the Trezor hack so don't know how many have lost funds.
I wish there was a perfect way to make everyone understand seed phrases should be taken care of as much as you would take care of a credit card. You do not give the credentials to a stranger who is asking you for it. You do not put these things into a random website or software. This should be the FIRST thing a Cryptocurrency newbie has to learn and be continuously reminded of.
Self awareness is necessary to be safe from these scams and you need to be educated and technically updated also.Like you said about credit cards then people know that they don't need to share their PIN or CCV number on the back with anyone but have seen many people still falling for fake calls asking for details as your bank account is linked to mobile.Or they fill out it on some fake websites which is why they loose funds.Same is the need here with your seeds but it should have proper back-up offline without sharing it with anyone.Your cards lost can be blocked and issued new one's but there's no such thing with seeds so be sure not to loose them.
This is the worst part of these recent scams. I mean even the YouTube and Twitter ones. You do not even have to steal money from someone by yourself. The victims are literally giving them access to their own coins or are sending the coins by themselves, using their own hands. Only thing that is able to fix this problem is education and some minimum level of paranoia we all should have. You just NEVER give your seed up to a software, you NEVER type your Hardware Wallet seed through anything except the Hardware Wallet itself. Be cautious, for God sake!
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Actually i would say that hackers are trying new methods in these types of hacks that most newbies and even old users have no idea about the hacks like in this one.They have also the phishing warning on the top of page to make it look legit :
But there were many fake things like domain name, signing not with Satoshi labs and enter your seeds and then they must have used keylogger as discussed above to do this scam.So you see how well they are managing these scams to make you fool.But it must be kept in mind that you don't need to give your seeds or fill out them anywhere until you investigate the matter in detail.The hackers take one step but the main security is compromised on our end by giving them access to wallets or seeds.This needs to be spread awareness among mass to tackle these scams.