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Like a popular NFT influencer life-changing money, lost fraud
Fraudulent companies are increasingly aiming at the Google Ads platform to spread malware to unsuspecting users who are looking for popular software products. A pseudonymous NFT user, "NFT God", is the youngest victim of such a fraud. They stated that they had violated their "entire digital livelihood". It started to lose a life-changing amount when the popular NFT-Influencer OBS was down on his personal desktop computer. They finally clicked on a sponsored display instead of the official website. Only after attackers posted phishing tweets on their two Twitter accounts did NFT God recognize that malware was involved. In a number of tweets, the user said that both personal ...
Like a popular NFT influencer life-changing money, lost fraud
fraudulent companies are increasingly aiming at the Google Ads platform to spread malware to unsuspecting users who are looking for popular software products. A pseudonymous NFT user, "NFT God", is the youngest victim of such a fraud.
They stated that they had violated their “entire digital livelihood”.
Lose a life -changing amount
It all started when the popular NFT-Influencer OBS was down on his personal desktop computer. They finally clicked on a sponsored display instead of the official website.
only after attackers posted phishing tweets on their two Twitter accounts, did NFT God recognize that malware was involved.
In a series of TWEETS said that both personal and professional accounts-Twitter, tweet, Substack, Gmail, Discord and Wallets - were hacked, which led to the loss of a "life -changing amount" of their net assets. The attackers even sent phishing emails to thousands of his subscribers in the Substack account.
"My substance means more than anything in my life that is not a person. Here I create my deeply personal work. I built my community there. It is the personal performance that I am most proud in my life. It threatened to be destroyed. Losing my net capacity is nothing in comparison to lose the trust of my community. ”
According to blockchain data, at least 19 ETHs were stolen from this wallet with several other NFTs, including a Mutant Ape Yacht Club (Mayc). Most Ether money was transferred to several wallets before they were moved to a decentralized stock exchange called Fixedfloat and exchanged for various digital assets.
nft God believes that the only critical mistake was to enter the seed phrase "in a way that it no longer kept cold" in a technology, which led to the fall of another. They said that although it was a "deadly mistake" not to buy a Cold Wallet, that this alone does not make up digital security. It is just as important to be careful with all activities on the Internet.
Google AdS abuse
Google Ads essentially helps advertisers to advertise pages in Google search. Every person without active advertising blockers sees the action first. If Google recognizes a website as malignant, it blocks the campaign and removes the ads. For this reason, attackers have used more sophisticated technology in order to bypass the guideline translators and automated checks from Google.
In a recently published report by Guardio Labs, it is said that the malicious link to sponsored advertising leads the victims to a harmless website before being diverted to a trojanized version that pretends to be legitimate.
The fraudulent website then leads the victim to the malignant payload. According to reports, the threat players users attract users to download fraudulent versions of several prominent projects. While the users get what they download, the malware is installed unnoticed.
Antivirus programs that are carried out on the victim's computers do not issue a warning, since the payload is mostly downloaded from reputable file sharing and code hosting services such as Github, Dropbox, etc.
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