- Meta, the company that owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp also recently alerted its users, recognizing various scam campaigns aimed at holiday shoppers.
- Crypto hackers could be seeking to make up for lost ground this holiday season after scamming losses went down to 53% month-on-month in the last month to $9.3 million.
- It is a strict reminder that all private keys and seed phrases kept on the password manager LastPass before 2023 are in danger.
The well-known LastPass scammers have theft around $5.36 million from LastPass users, just a week before Christmas. In December 2022, LastPass got vulnerable to a data breach, when the scammers were capable of copying a backup of customer vault data from encrypted storage.
As per the data from September 2024, over $35 million worth of crypto had been theft but factored in the $5.36 million and a $4.4 million incident from October 25 will draw the figure near to $45 million.
The latest scam witnessed the theft of funds traded for Ether and sent to different instant exchanges, as mentioned by a blockchain sleuth ZachXBT in a December 17 message to his 48,400 telegram subscribers.
The on-chain evidence of the hack
ZachXBT gave on-chain evidence of the recent LastPass hacks on the crypto hack reporting platform Chainabuse. It is a strict reminder that all private keys and seed phrases kept on the password manager LastPass before 2023 are in danger, white hat hacker team Security Alliance (SEAL) revealed in an X post on December 16.
It further suggested to transfer your assets before scammers move them for you. Non-crypto funds have been theft also, having $250 million of funds approximated to have been theft in May from tens of thousands of theft, the blockchain sleuth Tey revealed on X.
Talking about SEAL and Tay, they are two crypto advocates among others calling for ex-LastPass users to move their funds from LastPass before it’s too late. The most latest batch of LastPass scams comes in between an increase in scams resulting in the Christmas festive season.
Meta warned its users
Cyvers, blockchain security highlighted that hacker season has come now and requested everyone not to believe anything that seems too festive, to not share one’s 2FA codes, and to even stay away from connecting to free WiFi.
Meta, the company that owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp also recently alerted its users, recognizing various scam campaigns aimed at holiday shoppers from Christmas gift box promotions, to fraudulent holiday decoration sales, and fake retail coupons.
Crypto hackers could be seeking to make up for lost ground this holiday season after scamming losses went down to 53% month-on-month in the last month to $9.3 million.
