CoinMarketCap, a price tracking website for cryptocurrencies, has reportedly removed a malicious popup notification on its website that motivates users to verify their cryptocurrency wallets, according to a post on the official X account.
“We have identified and deleted the malicious code from our site,” CoinMarketCap Says in a post on Friday.
CoinMarketCap is not finished with the investigation into the issue
“Our team will continue to investigate and take steps to strengthen our security,” he added.
The update arrived less than three hours after CoinMarketCap met a malicious notice amid many reports spreading on social media.
“We know that a malicious popup that motivates users to” i -verify the purse “appeared on our site,” CoinmarketCap Says At the time.
Many crypto users in X said the malicious popup appeared to be a phishing scam, A crypto scam That involves tricking victims in providing their private keys or personal information. Hackers often naghijacked trusted accounts or create fake To post phishing links that seem legitimate.
The Crypto Auri user Says The notice “asks to connect the purse and then asks for approval to the ERC-20 tokens.”
CoinMarketCap warned users not to connect their purse and again said they were working on “solving the issue.”
Metamask and Phantom quickly saw the issue
Crypto user jet claimed Digital wallets of asset, metamask and phantom, are “red-flag it.”
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At the time of publication, users with Phantom Browser extension extension were shown that the website was “unsafe to use,” according to Cointelegraph’s further investigation.
The incident occurred nearly four years after CoinMarketCap was hacked in October 2021, resulting in leakage of more than 3.1 million (3,117,548) User email emails.
Information became light after that -hacked email addresses were found to have been exchanged and sold online at various hacking forums and I was declared that -pwned, a website dedicated to monitoring hacks and compromised online accounts.
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