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Celsius Creditors: Received New Wave of Phishing Email Attacks

According to reports on social media over the past week, there has been an increase in phishing attacks by scammers posing as Stretto. Stretto is a bankruptcy services platform for cryptocurrency lending institution Celsius and its creditors. One user reported receiving three phishing emails claiming to be from Celsius on September 18th. Others reported receiving fake emails with malicious links attempting to impersonate Stretto, the claims agent handling the bankruptcy case.

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