{"id":69238,"date":"2022-10-28T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=69238"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:47:03","slug":"binance-chief-warns-that-google-search-results-promote-phishing-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/binance-chief-warns-that-google-search-results-promote-phishing-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance chief warns that Google search results promote phishing sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao noted that Google search results promote phishing sites targeted at cryptocurrency users.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Google displays phishing sites when users search CMC. This affects users adding smart contract addresses to MetaMask using these phishing sites. We are trying to contact Google for this, and in the meantime alerting users about this through social channels. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/3q4860Jl4H\\\">pic.twitter.com\/3q4860Jl4H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CZ \ud83d\udd36 Binance (@cz_binance) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cz_binance\/status\/1585603140182753281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">October 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Zhao posted a screenshot showing that when searching for &#8216;coinmarketcap&#8217; in the top results, fraudulent sites labeled &#8216;Advertisement&#8217; appear.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>&#8220;This affects users who add smart contract addresses to MetaMask via such phishing sites. We are trying to contact Google about this, and in the meantime warning users through social channels,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the scammers&#8217; sites has an URL similar to the original, and the data of the second contains nothing resembling CoinMarketCap (CMC).<\/p>\n<p>The service is among the most popular data aggregators for the cryptocurrency market. Binance <a href=\\\"http:\/\/cmc\\\">acquired CMC<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in November 2021, scammers used Google advertising to promote fake MetaMask and Phantom wallet sites. Losses to users <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/metamask-and-phantom-wallet-users-lose-500000-to-google-ads-scam\">exceeded $500,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2022, amid <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/terras-death-spiral-how-and-why-luna-and-ust-collapsed\">the hype around Terra<\/a>, scammers conducted a phishing attack through advertising promoting fake Anchor or Astroport sites. To the attackers&#8217; address <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/terra-users-lose-over-4-million-in-phishing-attack\">crypto assets worth $4.31 million<\/a> were received, according to SlowMist.<\/p>\n<p>In October, researcher going by the nickname ZachXBT noted that the phishing-scammers Monkey Drainer, formed several months earlier, stole roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/researcher-accuses-monkey-drainer-phishing-scammers-of-1m-cryptocurrency-theft\">about $1 million<\/a> of digital assets in a day.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao noted that Google search results promote phishing sites targeted at cryptocurrency users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[935,1154,738],"class_list":["post-69238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-changpeng-zhao","tag-crimes","tag-google"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69240,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69238\/revisions\/69240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}