A new phishing campaign is exploiting the increasing interest of security community members towards Flipper Zero to steal their personal information and cryptocurrency.
Flipper Zero is a portable multi-functional cybersecurity tool for pen-testers and hacking enthusiasts. The tool allows researchers to tinker with a wide range of hardware by supporting RFID emulation, digital access key cloning, radio communications, NFC, infrared, Bluetooth, and more.
The developers launched the device after a massively successful 2020 Kickstarter campaign, which surpassed the funding goal of $60,000 by 81 times, after receiving $4,882,784 in pledges.
Since then, security researchers’ demonstrations of the endlessly amusing and somewhat scary capabilities of Flipper Zero on social media have helped generate much hype around the device, raising the interest of aspiring hackers and researchers.
Threat actors are now taking advantage of the immense interest in Flipper Zero and its lack of availability by creating fake shops pretending to sell it.
These phishing campaigns were discovered by security analyst Dominic Alvieri, who spotted three fake Twitter accounts and two fake Flipper Zero stores.
