MetaMask wallet warned of phishing attack – Bits Media

MetaMask, the popular Ethereum wallet, has sent out a notification about a new phishing attack. Hackers ask for a secret phrase (seed) under the guise of an official survey.

According to developers, hackers launched a special bot, who writes Metamask users with reference to the "support portal". Under the guise of this portal, the Service Service on Google Docs is used. Users are asked about the problem, what happened to the wallet, and also ask to provide a secret phrase from the wallet. If gullible users tell the phrase, then the attackers get full access to the wallet and all the crypto actes stored on it.

Metamask developers emphasize, that the wallet has its own function “get help” and it does not use the Google Docs platform. They call all users, faced with errors or other problems, Use the built -in function, but not transition to link, sent by unknown accounts. They also called on to complain about fraudulent messages.

It is worth noting, that the Metamask wallet is one of the most popular tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. The number of active users of the program exceeded
5 Milln per month. The developers told, that Metamask Swaps was the most popular function, allowing to buy and sell ERC-20 tokens on various decentralized exchanges.