This week, threat actors hijacked Bitcoin.org, the authentic website of the Bitcoin project, and altered its parts to push a cryptocurrency giveaway scam that unfortunately some users fell for.
Although the hack lasted for less than a day, hackers seem to have walked away with a little over $17,000.
Bitcoin.org hacked to run 'double your money' scam
As shown below, on September 23rd, the home page of bitcoin.org stated:
"The Bitcoin Foundation is giving back to the community! We want to support our users who have helped us along the years," encouraging users to send Bitcoins to the attacker's displayed wallet address.
"Send Bitcoin to this address, and we will send double the amount in return!"
Further, to add appeal to the claim, scammers wrote that the offer was limited to the first 10,000 users.
