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On February 4, users of the Electrum and MyEtherWallet cryptocurrency wallets faced phishing attacks. Phishing attack is a fraudulent and illegal attempt to obtain confidential data - personal or bank information of users; at the same time, the attacker impersonates himself as a trustee and sends the user a message with a malicious link. The link usually leads to a page where the user is asked to enter personal data, or clicking the link initiates the installation of malicious software on the user"s device. On February 4, MyEtherWallet developers tweeted warning about phishing emails, asking users to share personal information. The MEW developers’ message states: “Attention to the MEW community!Attackers send phishing emails tha ... Read more about " Warning! Phishing attack on users of Electrum and MEW wallets " on coinatory.com

The popular Ethereum wallet MyEtherWallet (MEW) has registered more attempts to carry out hacker attacks than banks from the Fortune 500 list, writes CCN referring to Segasec company data. Segasec provides MEW cyber defense services. The interest of malefactors to the MEW platform is not surprising, given the volume of valuable Ethereum tokens, for the storage of which it is used. On the main page of the MEW website, users are always met with a warning about what they need to do to protect their funds better. In addition to the standard ... Read more about " MyEtherWallet (MEW) has registered more hacker attack attempts than banks from the Fortune 500 list " on coinatory.com