Please stop calling it phishing. That word doesn't mean anything related to IT, email, or hackers. The first rule about naming new "things" is to give it a name that relates to that "thing's" definition. Phishing isn't it. We need to stop using that word.
What are the spoofed emails asking for? How would we know if the email we received was part of this email hack?
Thanks for the PSA!
Technically, it
is phishing if spoofed emails are being delivered to users. I'm assuming that these emails are a way to phish your password and/or private keys somehow.
OP, do you have any examples of what these spoofed emails look like?
I received such an email myself a few days ago
Basically, I was offered 4 Btc-e vouchers which I had to redeem within 4 days. It was clear that it was no more than a phishing attempt, but I got curious. So I fired up a virtual machine in a read-only mode, disconnected network and shared folders, opened the Microsoft Word document attached to the email and entered the password which was written in it. Quite naturally, there were no vouchers but some Windows script embedded (I had to switch off a few security features in Word to run it) and it tried to do some nefarious stuff but it failed miserably. If anyone is interested to look at that script (or in any other related info), I can send this email (but you should certainly know what you are doing)