Bad actors allegedly tried to brute force their way into accounts belonging to Paxful's users in an ongoing series of attacks.
Paxful, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, has successfully defended against a number of serious threats, including 220,000 bot attacks and a variety of social engineering ploys - all in the span of two months.
During the same time period, hackers managed to steal around $200 million worth of cryptocurrency from the KuCoin exchange, and another unconnected attack saw $5.4 million stolen from Eterbase.
"Bots, which are reported to generate about a quarter of global Web traffic, are de facto programs that emulate the actions of a real device for the purposes needed. They are a big headache for eCommerce businesses today, with cybercriminals using them to steal money, brute-force user credentials or carry out DDoS attacks."
Global lockdown has presented criminals with a number of unique opportunities.
Although not the biggest in terms of damage, the most publicized exploit of this nature was one perpetrated by a few teenagers who managed to hack some of Twitter's biggest accounts.
Attack of the bots! Paxful fights off thousands of automated threats
Udgivet den Oct 23, 2020
by Cointele | Udgivet den Coinage
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