Cryptocurrency exchange FTX has issued a renewed public warning about phishing emails and scam sites that are designed to impersonate its Debtors’ portal. The alert was disseminated via the company’s official Twitter account on October 5, 2023. In the tweet, FTX explicitly stated, “Please remain aware of phishing emails that look like they are from FTX Debtors and scam sites from channels that may appear to look like the FTX Debtors’ online claims portal (https://claims.ftx.com). Reminder: FTX Debtors will never ask you to connect your wallets.”
The latest warning from FTX comes in the wake of broader industry concerns about the rise in phishing attacks. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as CZ, had previously warned that users of FTX, BlockFi, and Genesis are under the threat of new phishing attacks. According to CZ, these attacks are directly linked to the Kroll data leak, which originated from a SIM swap conducted on an…
