About: Don't Fish in Troubled Waters! Characterizing Coronavirus-themed Cryptocurrency Scams

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has title	Don't Fish in Troubled Waters! Characterizing Coronavirus-themed Cryptocurrency Scams
Creator	Wu, Lei Huang, Gang Wang, Haoyu Bai, Guangdong Liu, Xuanzhe Luo, Xiapu Xia, Pengcheng Xu, Guoai Zhou, Yajin
Source	ArXiv
abstract	As COVID-19 has been spreading across the world since early 2020, a growing number of malicious campaigns are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic. Cryptocurrency has attracted great attentions from attackers in this pandemic, namely, COVID-19 themed cryptocurrency scams are increasingly popular during the pandemic. However, these newly emerging scams are poorly understood by our community. In this paper, we present the first measurement study of COVID-19 themed cryptocurrency scams. We first create a comprehensive taxonomy of COVID-19 scams by manually analyzing the existing scams reported by users from online resources. Then, we propose a hybrid approach to perform the investigation by: 1) collecting reported scams in the wild; and 2) detecting undisclosed ones based on information collected from suspicious entities (e.g., domains, tweets, etc). We have collected 195 confirmed COVID-19 cryptocurrency scams in total, including 91 token scams, 19 giveaway scams, 9 blackmail scams, 14 crypto malware scams, 9 Ponzi scheme scams, and 53 donation scams. We then identified over 200 blockchain addresses associated with these scams, which lead to at least 330K US dollars in losses from 6,329 victims. For each type of scams, we further investigated the tricks and social engineering techniques they used. To facilitate future research, we have publicly released all the well-labelled scams to the community.
has issue date	2020-07-27(xsd:dateTime)
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