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Curve Finance Phishing Attack

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Incident Overview

Recently, a user suffered a phishing attack while visiting the Curve exchange website, and lost 20 Bitcoins. It is reported that the fraud group used the Google advertising system to purchase Google search ads, pretending to be the Curve exchange for fraudulent advertising. Due to google’s new advertising program, ads are usually displayed in the first place in search, which has caused many users to be deceived.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://www.btcfans.com/en-us/flash/id-30048 (opens in a new tab)

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