South Korea to step up fight against cryptocurrency phishing – Bits Media

South Korean government and South Korean police work to improve phishing website monitoring system, aimed at stealing users' cryptoassets.

According to the publication of Yonhap, Ministry of Education, South Korea's science and technology, what The number of messages about Fishing's attempts has grown in recent months. During such attacks of digital assets, they ask to share passwords, which will give access to their cryptocurrency accounts.

The ministry announced, that over the past three months has been discovered and blocked in total 32 Fishing website, aimed at cryptocurrency investors. At the same time, for the whole 2020 The year was closed 41 Fishing website.

Fishing attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated: Attackers are more successfully creating emails, Similar to official messages of cryptocurrency firms. Earlier, the publication Bits.media has released a detailed guide about, how not to become a victim of cryptocurrency fraud, Including phishing.

Usually scammers are counting on that, that the user will not notice, that the address of the fisch site is different from the original. One examples of a fisch web site, mentioned in the publication of Yonhap, leads to the BITHNUB website and looks like the address of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange BITHUMB.

South Korea police said, that actively blocks phishing cryptocurrency sites since the beginning of the year. As of 4 May the police investigate 21 case, related to illegal access of criminals to cryptocurrency accounts of users.

Recently, South Korea regulators said, that they plan to strengthen the fight against illegal operations in crypto actes against the background of the continuing paper of cryptocurrency markets.