Fraudsters used fake emails to steal passwords of the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt). Certificates were then transferred to other participating countries and then sold. Some sources report losses of millions of Euros.
The certificates have unique IDs and the DEHSt is working hard to rollback all transactions. In the meantime the register is closed. A spokesperson of DEHSt describes the attack as highly professional and the German Federal Criminal Office (BKA) started an investigation.
You can easily avoid these attacks by checking the sender of emails, not using links inside emails instead trust your bookmarks and in this case by not publishing your email address in the register.
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