Even today, there are hackers taking over YouTube channels, using names of Elon Musk, SpaceX, Cathie Wood to scam cryptocurrency.
As Bitcoin keeps breaking all-time-high records, interest in Bitcoin is reigniting, and some of the growing pool of new cryptocurrency holders may fall into such scam.
It doesn’t help when YouTube ranks these scam videos at the top!
Investigation includes:
> Observing the take-over of YouTube channels with high viewership and subscriber count, as it happens
> Exposing hard-coded JavaScript that were used to spoof transactions on scam sites
> Finding similar code fragments on freelancer sites
> Tracing bitcoin address that was used to funnel scammed funds
> Uncovering the use of website copier programs for scammers to quickly spin up scam sites
As Bitcoin keeps breaking all-time-high records, interest in Bitcoin is reigniting, and some of the growing pool of new cryptocurrency holders may fall into such scam.
It doesn’t help when YouTube ranks these scam videos at the top!
Investigation includes: > Observing the take-over of YouTube channels with high viewership and subscriber count, as it happens > Exposing hard-coded JavaScript that were used to spoof transactions on scam sites > Finding similar code fragments on freelancer sites > Tracing bitcoin address that was used to funnel scammed funds > Uncovering the use of website copier programs for scammers to quickly spin up scam sites