Rapid7 Exposes the Full Scope of Cryptocurrency Scam Starting with Over 880,000 Phone Verifications

2026/08/20 17:43 (Updated 2026/08/20 18:02)

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Rapid7 Exposes the Full Scope of Cryptocurrency Scam Starting with Over 880,000 Phone Verifications

A Meticulously Designed Multi-Stage Attack

U.S. cybersecurity firm Rapid7 revealed on the 17th the details of a large-scale fraud campaign targeting cryptocurrency users, named 'Operation ASTERIX'. The name originates from the open-source telecommunication platform 'Asterisk', discovered on the attacker's server. Rapid7 stumbled upon a web directory that was accidentally exposed to the public due to a configuration error...

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