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Will companies lose trust after advertising, and what does the Overworld game have to do with it?
Unknown cybercriminals hacked the official accounts of Netgear and Hyundai MEA in X, which have more than 160,000 subscribers. The purpose of the attack was to spread fraudulent schemes aimed at infecting victims with malware that is designed to steal cryptocurrency wallets.
Hyundai has already managed to regain control of its account and clear the feed of all links leading to malicious sites. However, Netgear has still not been able to restore access to its account, and some of the attackers ' tweets are still available in X.
The attackers renamed the Hyundai MEA (Middle East & Africa) account to pass it off as the account of the NFT game Overworld, a cross-platform multiplayer RPG supported by Binance Labs, a venture capital fund and an incubator of the Binance crypto exchange.
Overworld, often the target of such fraudulent schemes, regularly warns its subscribers in X to be careful and avoid contact with scammers who pretend to be an Overworld account.
The Netgear account has been hacked since at least January 6 and was used exclusively to advertise the malicious BRC App site, luring subscribers with promises of $100,000 to the first 1,000 registered users. However, anyone who connects their wallet to the site risks losing their assets and NFT due to malicious actions.
Tweets on the hacked accounts of Hyundai MEA (left) and Netgear (right)
Representatives of Netgear and Hyundai did not provide comments on the situation.
Recently, the account of the American information security company Mandiant (a subsidiary of Google) was hacked to conduct cryptocurrency fraud. The attacker renamed the account and spread false information about the free distribution of cryptocurrency on behalf of the Phantom crypto wallet.
Unknown cybercriminals hacked the official accounts of Netgear and Hyundai MEA in X, which have more than 160,000 subscribers. The purpose of the attack was to spread fraudulent schemes aimed at infecting victims with malware that is designed to steal cryptocurrency wallets.
Hyundai has already managed to regain control of its account and clear the feed of all links leading to malicious sites. However, Netgear has still not been able to restore access to its account, and some of the attackers ' tweets are still available in X.
The attackers renamed the Hyundai MEA (Middle East & Africa) account to pass it off as the account of the NFT game Overworld, a cross-platform multiplayer RPG supported by Binance Labs, a venture capital fund and an incubator of the Binance crypto exchange.
Overworld, often the target of such fraudulent schemes, regularly warns its subscribers in X to be careful and avoid contact with scammers who pretend to be an Overworld account.
The Netgear account has been hacked since at least January 6 and was used exclusively to advertise the malicious BRC App site, luring subscribers with promises of $100,000 to the first 1,000 registered users. However, anyone who connects their wallet to the site risks losing their assets and NFT due to malicious actions.
Tweets on the hacked accounts of Hyundai MEA (left) and Netgear (right)
Representatives of Netgear and Hyundai did not provide comments on the situation.
Recently, the account of the American information security company Mandiant (a subsidiary of Google) was hacked to conduct cryptocurrency fraud. The attacker renamed the account and spread false information about the free distribution of cryptocurrency on behalf of the Phantom crypto wallet.
