The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB,) a commercial bank headquartered in Santa Clara, California, has caused plenty of market instability.
SVB was the 16th-largest bank in the United States when it collapsed on March 10th, ending 40 years of banking activities. On March 13, 2023, the FDIC transferred all deposits—both insured and uninsured—and substantially all assets of the former Silicon Valley Bank of Santa Clara, California, to a newly created, full-service FDIC-operated ‘bridge bank’ in an action designed to protect all depositors of Silicon Valley Bank.
Any such event that involves financial transactions and money is susceptible to phishing attempts by unscrupulous individuals. The use of domains that use the SVB brand, for example, was amplified since March 10th.
According to the DomainTools blog, new domain registrations relating to the Silicon Valley Bank are emerging. Some could be phishing campaigns, although one has to keep in mind that not all are parts of a scam, and not all scammy domains targeting SVB will utilize SVB-related terms:
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svbreceivership[.]com
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