Coinmarketcap, a pricing website for cryptocurrencies, has eliminated an emerging malicious notification on its website, allowing users to verify their cryptocurrency wallets, according to an official post Ons account.
“We have identified and eliminated the malicious code of our site,” said CoinmarketCap in a publication on Friday.
Coinmarketcap has not finished investigating the problem
“Our team continues to investigate and prohibit the steps to strengthen our security,” he added.
The update occurred less than three hours after Coinmarketcap publicly approached the malicious notification in the midst of multiple reports that extended on social networks.
“We are aware that a malicious emerging window that asks users to” verify the wallet “has appeared on our site,” CoinmarketCap said at that time.
Many X -cryptography users said that the malicious emerging window seemed to be a phishing scam, a cryptographic scam that involves deceiving victims to renounce their private keys or personal information. The hackers of kidnapping trusted accounts or create false to publish phishing links that seem to be legitimate.
Crypto Auri user said the notification “requests to connect the wallet and then ask for approval to the ERC-20 tokens.”
Coinmarketcap warned users not to connect their wallet and reiterated that they work to “solve the problem.”
Metamk and Phantom quickly saw the problem
Crypto User Jet said that digital assets wallets, Metamask and Phantom, had “infected red.”
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At the time of publication, users with an extension of the Phantom wallet browser show a warning that the website is “insecure to use”, according to a greater investigation by Cointelegraph.
The incident occurred almost four years after CoinmarketCap was pirated in October 2021, which resulted in a filtration of approximately 3.1 million (3,117,548) user email addresses.
The information came to light after the pirated email addresses were exchanged and sold online in several piracy forums and revealed by Have i Leg Pwned, a website dedicated to tracking hacks and committed online accounts.
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