{"id":85773,"date":"2023-10-16T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85773"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:21:29","slug":"phishing-attacks-against-cryptocurrency-holders-have-risen-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/phishing-attacks-against-cryptocurrency-holders-have-risen-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing attacks against cryptocurrency holders have risen in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September, the number of attempts by Russian users to navigate to cryptocurrency-related phishing pages rose by almost 50% compared with August\u2014from 211,000 to 317,000. This was reported by <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/6280613\\\">Kommersant<\/a>, citing data from Kaspersky Lab.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Overall in the third quarter, the company&#8217;s solutions prevented 633,000 such incidents. By comparison, in the second quarter this figure stood at around 379,000 incidents.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Other experts also point to a rise in crypto fraud. According to data from the cybersecurity platform Immunefi, the total number of cyberattacks in the third quarter increased <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/report-crypto-industry-losses-from-hacks-and-scams-rise-60-year-on-year\">by 153%<\/a> compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to estimates by experts polled by the publication, annually about 10\u201315% of users who first buy crypto assets become victims of fraudsters. For 2022\u20132023, the amount of funds lost by Russian citizens alone amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars, they added.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The uptick is linked to seasonal factors in market capitalization growth, and to Binance&#8217;s exit from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In September, Aleksei Pomerko <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/alexey-pomerko-of-arsenal-tula-loses-2-3-million-rubles-in-a-cryptocurrency-purchase\">became a victim of a conman<\/a> when attempting to buy cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Russian actor Artem Tkachenko <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-actor-loses-about-260000-in-fraudulent-bitcoin-investments\">lost about $260,000<\/a> on fraudulent Bitcoin investments, trusting the advice of Pavel Derevyanko, who also <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/actor-pavel-derevyanko-discusses-failed-crypto-investments\">suffered losses<\/a> in cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September, the number of attempts by Russian users to navigate to cryptocurrency-related phishing pages rose by almost 50% compared with August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85774,"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":[44,27],"class_list":["post-85773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85773","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=85773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85775,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85773\/revisions\/85775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}