Cado Security Labs has pointed out that cybercriminals are using AI to create fake websites and apps through which they recruit victims from the cryptocurrency sector.

Through these fake meeting apps, hackers spread malware to steal personal data, as well as access credentials to “websites, apps and cryptocurrency wallets.”

Scammers create malicious pages and fake social media accounts that are difficult to detect “before contacting potential victims to encourage them to download a meeting app,” according to Tara Gould, Cado’s threat research leader.

An example is the “Meeten” app, although it operates under the name “Meetio” and “regularly changes its name. In the past, it has used names such as Clusee.com, Cuesee, Meeten.gg, Meeten.us, and Meetone.gg.”

Once downloaded, the information stealer called Realst contained in the app “searches for sensitive items such as Telegram login credentials, bank card details, and cryptocurrency wallet information to send to the attackers.”

In addition, it searches for browser cookies and auto-filled credentials from applications such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. In this way, the credentials of the Ledger, Trezor, and Binance wallets are stolen.

“The use of AI allows threat actors to quickly create realistic content for websites, which adds legitimacy to their scams and makes it harder to detect suspicious websites,” the researchers said, highlighting that this attack has been operating for about four months, with versions for macOS and Windows.

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Source: cointelegraph

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The European Commission plans to release on December 7 the draft of a new proposal for the payment of taxes in the crypto sector as a measure to prevent crimes such as tax evasion.

The Commission will establish a debate about the regulation of digital currencies in the area, which has been raised as necessary to prevent crimes such as tax evasion, money laundering and other actions that violate citizens’ assets.

It is estimated that from 2023 strict compliance regulations will be applied, which would be applied definitively from 2026. In this regard, the European Commissioner for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, pointed out: “The digitization of the economy is creating new opportunities; however, it has also exposed cracks in our tax systems.”

Faced with the challenges of this new era of digital finance, the European Commission will discuss aspects such as the application of a “single tax regime for cryptocurrencies in the 27 countries that make up the European Union”, beyond the sovereignty of each country in matters economic.

Parliament will have the task of studying the proposals to reach a consensus, at best, in February 2023.

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