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Phishing attack pop-up targets MetaMask users visiting popular crypto sites

Phishing attack pop-up targets MetaMask users visiting popular crypto sites

The malicious pop-up ad that appeared on several crypto sites Friday
The malicious pop-up ad that appeared on several crypto sites Friday | Image: CoinGecko

As if this week weren’t bad enough for many cryptocurrency owners, with stablecoins crashing and Coinbase suffering an outage at a particularly bad time, now they’ve reportedly been targeted by a new phishing attack. As reported by CoinDesk and The Block Crypto, sites including Etherscan, CoinGecko, and DexTools all warned users that they were aware of suspicious popups appearing for visitors, and advised them not to confirm any transactions based on popups.

Like many recent phishing attacks, this one appeared to promise a link to the Bored Ape Yacht Club project, with an ape skull logo and a (now-disabled) nftapes.win domain. It prompted users to connect their MetaMask wallets (a software cryptocurrency wallet that enables access on…

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