{"id":11305,"date":"2018-10-22T08:11:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T08:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=11305"},"modified":"2018-10-22T08:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T08:11:30","slug":"kyrgyzstan-in-top-5-for-cryptocurrency-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/kyrgyzstan-in-top-5-for-cryptocurrency-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan in top 5 for cryptocurrency attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspersky Lab has completed a study that shows that Kyrgyzstan ranks in the top 5 in the world for cryptocurrency attacks. According to the study, hackers stole more than USD 2.3 million in cryptocurrency attacks just in the second quarter of 2018. It was reported that attackers convince user to finance fraudulent token-sales and ICOs (a form of attracting investment), giving the attackers access to passwords and confidential data associated with cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>Phishing scams were most active in South America and Asia. Brazil had the most phishing attacks, following by China, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-11305 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor 15th \u2013 22nd May'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-15th-22nd-may\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Untitled-2-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-14942\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-14942'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor 15th \u2013 22nd May\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor (June 2023)'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-june-2023\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ubLe111-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-17176\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-17176'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor (June 2023)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Russian MIR national system to be included in Armenia\u2019s register of payment systems'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/russian-mir-national-system-to-be-included-in-armenias-register-of-payment-systems\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Russian-MIR-national-system-to-be-included-in-Armenia\u2019s-register-of-payment-systems-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-6851\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Russian-MIR-national-system-to-be-included-in-Armenia\u2019s-register-of-payment-systems-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Russian-MIR-national-system-to-be-included-in-Armenia\u2019s-register-of-payment-systems-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-6851'>\n\t\t\t\tRussian MIR national system to be included in Armenia\u2019s register of payment systems\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspersky Lab has completed a study that shows that Kyrgyzstan ranks in the top 5 in the world for cryptocurrency attacks. According to the study, hackers stole more than USD 2.3 million in cryptocurrency attacks just in the second quarter of 2018. It was reported that attackers convince user to finance fraudulent token-sales and ICOs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,72],"tags":[399,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11403,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305\/revisions\/11403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}