Cismo Organization and the Department of Postal and Telecommunications Ukrainian together uncovered a fraudulent scheme, which allowed criminals to steal Bitcoins for three years, totaling 50 000 000 dollars.
The organizers of phishing schemes are Ukrainian hackers Coinhoarder team. They stole cryptocurrency, which belongs to the owners of e-wallets on the popular portal Blockchain.info.
In fact, maximally simple circuit: advertisements on Google bought and focused on the following search queries: blokcheyn and Bitcoin wallet,. Veli these ads on bogus websites, It is a complete copy of the aforementioned portal. users, click on the ads, fell on the mirrored copy of the site. The most interesting, the original domain name in the search results was slightly lower, than dummy portals. A fake website, unsuspecting people have entered the information of a private nature, allowing fraudsters to gain access to Bitcoin.
Cismo specialists and police Ukraine spent a lot of effort into, so that for six months to monitor the large-scale campaign. According to available information, Ukrainian hackers Coinhoarder groups were active in this area the last three years. During this time he managed to steal at cryptocurrency 50 000 000 dollars. During the second half of the last calendar year, they kidnapped on cryptocurrency 10 000 000 dollars.