New “Racist And Vulgar” Email Attack Targets BlockFi Users
Last Updated: 10 March 2021
It seems 2021 has failed to give up the mantle of strange chaos that 2020 so gleefully gave us. This week, BlockFi, a crypto borrowing, and lending app, was forced to close its registrations temporarily thanks to a malicious actor attacking the app. This comes from the Forbes media outlet.
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BlockFi’s employees stated that a single malicious entity managed to start the registration process for more than 1,000 fake accounts, doing so on the 7th of March, 2021. It did so through the use of real users’ email addresses, as well.
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