{"id":683772,"date":"2025-08-07T13:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aave-hit-by-phishing-attack-day-after-reaching-60b-in-net-deposits\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:10:20","slug":"aave-hit-by-phishing-attack-day-after-reaching-60b-in-net-deposits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aave-hit-by-phishing-attack-day-after-reaching-60b-in-net-deposits\/","title":{"rendered":"Aave hit by phishing attack day after reaching $60B in net deposits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDgvMDE5ODgzYjUtYWNhMC03MzVkLWI0NDItYjhiNjUzZGI4MDNm.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Scammers used Google Ads to impersonate Aave investment platforms in an attempt to trick users into linking wallets to malicious sites.<\/p>\n<p><p>Soon after decentralized liquidity protocol Aave announced it had surpassed $60 billion in net deposits, scammers launched a phishing campaign targeting its users through Google Ads, according to security researchers.  <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Aave said that it had become the first decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol to accumulate $60 billion in net deposits across 14 networks. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tokenterminal.com\/explorer\/projects\/aave\/metrics\/net-deposits\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/tokenterminal.com\/explorer\/projects\/aave\/metrics\/net-deposits\">According<\/a> to Token Terminal data, Aave\u2019s net deposits have more than <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>led in the past year from about $18 billion in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>A day later, on Thursday, blockchain investigation firm PeckShield alerted the crypto community to an ongoing phishing attack targeting Aave (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/aave-price-index\">AAVE<\/a>) investors. Scammers had posted phishing links to fake Aave investment platforms via the Google Ads service.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Soon after decentralized liquidity protocol Aave announced it had surpassed $60 billion in net deposits, scammers launched a phishing campaign targeting its users through Google Ads, according to security researchers. On Wednesday, Aave said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":683773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-08\/019883b5-aca0-735d-b442-b8b653db803f","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92664,74867,74894,74868,74355,117,70375,72366,75134,72287],"class_list":["post-683772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-aave","tag-altcoin","tag-blockchain","tag-defi","tag-adoption","tag-business","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data","tag-phishing","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}