During the first six months of 2018, the electronic money sphere constantly witnessed the attacks on large-to-small transactions, which cost millions of dollars. So how can we protect our accounts on the exchange?
The electronic money exchange platform is the prime target of cybercriminals - those who make money from illegal electronic money. According to security expert Blockchain CipherTrace, $ 731 million has been stolen in the attacks on the trading floor from the beginning of the year to date. While most of these attacks are related to the attacks of the trading floor, many hackers out there are still targeting small users on the exchange.
In this article, I will show you how hackers often steal your digital assets from trading platforms and how you can protect your account against hackers.
***** Fake email
If you are a regular e-news reader on Twitter or on other social media platforms, make sure you may have received countless fake e-mails from eCommerce exchanges. You can login using the link in the email.
This is a very common type of scam that is used to 'register' new, inexperienced users. Although often easy to spot, bad guys have become more sophisticated and have developed phishing emails that look very similar to a top-tier email client.
Be careful when you receive emails from any e-currency trading platform and it's best to log in through your browser so you can be sure that you are accessing the exact link of the exchange. Because log in via the link in the email to avoid leaking your information.
*****Fake website
In addition to fraudulent e-mails, the next common phishing scam used by hackers is through phishing sites, which can 'trick' new users who are not sober enough to disclose account information. their.
By entering the name of a trading platform into Google, you will often see the websites of the exchanges listed the first order of the search results as advertisements. However, some of these ads may have been hacked by hackers and when you click on them, they will take you to a site that looks just like the site you are looking for for the purpose of stealing. Login information to 'steal' your money on the real trading platform.
Fake trading sites often target 'big guys' like Bittrex, Poloniex, Binance, etc.
Google has begun offering campaigns to 'clean up' these types of 'malicious' ads but still can not do 'clean' and these ads are still appearing regularly. So you need to be alert before deciding to log into a website.
*****Hack email account
Finally, and perhaps this is the most dangerous way for a bad guy to get into your account is to hack the email account to access your trading account by changing the password.
Although email account hacking has become much more difficult, hackers can still get their hands on phone numbers and names. If you have two-factor authentication for your email account (usually Gmail), the hacker can still exploit the 7 security vulnerability (SS7) in the telecommunications network to access the text messaging function. on your phone.
By exploiting this vulnerability, passwords can still be reset for your email account, then they can use this password to reset passwords on your trading account to infiltrate and ' scam 'your money.
*****Summary*****
If you want to be sure of your money more carefully, then study and carefully evaluate a trading floor in advance to avoid the case of "give the sheep in care of the wolf"