A hacker has stolen over $15 million from crypto wallets by imitating the website of the HitBTC exchange. The hackers cloned the exchange’s user interface to lure victims into connecting their wallets by clicking “Approve.” According to the crypto tracking platform MistTrack, hackers created a fake website, “hitb2c[.]lol,” to impersonate the original website, “hitbtc[.]com.” After a user connects their wallet, the website will access their USDT token holdings. Or, the website asks users to deposit crypto at hackers’ addresses, and then the hacker will steal their funds. Also, if the user clicks the confirm button on the pop-ups, they also lose their crypto. The hacker has so far stolen 52.2 Bitcoin (BTC), 242.0 USDT, 22.3 million Shiba Inu (SHIB), and 2,966.2 Ethereum (ETH). The cybersecurity firm Kaspersky reported that crypto phishing incident grew by 40%, from 3,596,437 cases in 2021 to 5,040,520 in 2022. Bad actors use various techniques, like impersonating famous projects or personalities. They create scam Twitter handles by using a username that is similar to genuine projects to trick users.
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