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Number of IPFS phishing attacks - both mass and targeted. As of late, we have observes an increase in the “Attackers have and will continue to use cutting-edge Researchers observed almost 400,000 letters – a 100,000 increase than inĭistribution by month, November 2022 - February 2023 Was the busiest month in terms of IPFS phishing activity. Of IPFS phishing attacks, November 2022 - February 2023 More than 24,000 letters-a-day in January and February. Starting this year, IPFS phishing began to grow in scale, reaching Late 2022, Kaspersky observed two – 15,000 IPFS phishing letters-a-day for most This way, one link can be used in several phishingĬampaigns targeting different users - sometimes even in dozens of Once modified, theĬorporate logo on top of the phishing form and email address entered into the URL parameter contains the recipient’s email address. What is interesting about this technique is where the The typical phishing content the purpose of which is to obtain the victim’sĪccount login and password. Letters containing IPFS links are hardly ever too original - they contain As for now, theĬampaign is ongoing and being blocked by Kaspersky. The URLĪddresses of IPFS files were first appeared in October 2022. Quickly as the blocking of a phishing website, cloud form, or document. Gateway providers attempt to combat IPFS phishing by regularly deleting linksĭetection and deletion of links at gateway level does not always happen as If somebody wants a file to disappear from the systemĬompletely, they can urge its owners to delete it, but the method will probably Besides, it’s impossible to delete files uploaded by third Use of a distributed file system allows attackers to cut back on phishing page Into phishing letters dispatched to would-be victims. The scammers also include file access links via a gateway That victims can open the file, whether or not they are running an IPFS client HTML files containing a phishing form in IPFS and use gateways as proxies, so To view the files residing in IPFS freely without installing any software, theĢ022, scammers began actively using IPFS for email phishing attacks.
By default, uploading orĭownloading a file to IPFS requires special software (IPFS client). IPFS and downloaded directly from that computer. The file itself resides on the computer of the user who had “uploaded” it to Performed according to unique content identifiers (CID), and not file paths.
Unlike centralized systems, IPFS uses addressing ( InterPlanetary File System) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system enabling users around the
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