By John Leyden, 22 Aug 2014
Cybercrooks have launched a phishing campaign targeting Bitcoin users – and it's enjoying high response rates despite the seemingly random spraying of corporate email addresses with the spam-based scam.
Security-as-a-service provider Proofpoint has detected 12,000 messages sent in two separate waves to more than 400 organisations across a variety of industries including higher education, financial services, high tech, media and manufacturing. Consumers are also on the target list.
The broad nature of this campaign was surprising, since most previous Bitcoin credential theft scams have used lists of known and active Bitcoin users.
The Register/ full article here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/22/bitcoin_phishing_scam/
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