🚨 88.5 MILLION PHONE NUMBERS TARGETED IN A CRYPTO PHISHING OPERATION 💀
Rapid7 has just revealed Operation Asterix, a large-scale crypto phishing campaign targeting around 88.5 million phone numbers across multiple countries.
Notably:
→ 88.5M phone numbers are involved in the campaign
→ 5,576 numbers were identified as matching Binance accounts
→ Impersonating Ledger, Trezor, and Exodus
→ Luring victims to fake wallet websites
→ Main goal: steal the seed phrase / mnemonic
→ Includes both emails and fake customer support calls
→ Bulk phone-number verification tools are also used to target Kraken accounts
→ AI is used heavily in phishing activity
In Germany, Rapid7 found more than 316,000 phone numbers in the campaign data, of which 43,066 are related to crypto accounts — about 13.6%.
And the loss figures are no joke:
$306M was lost to phishing and social-engineering scams in Q1, making up the bulk of the $482M total crypto losses Hacken recorded.
Scammer:
“Hello, Binance support.” 📞
User:
“How do I fix my wallet?”
Scammer:
“Just give me your 12 words.”
Wallet:
“Congratulations. You just fixed your portfolio.” 💀
⚠️ A seed phrase is never required to be entered into a website via a link sent by email, SMS, or “customer support.”
In particular, Ledger / Trezor / Exodus support will not need your seed phrase to “verify” your wallet.
Have you ever received a fake Binance/Ledger support message?
#BrainrotCrypto #scam