Posing as journalists, hackers make $3.3 million in cryptocurrency

According to Web 3.0 anti-fraud website ScamSniffer, the bad guys from the Pink Drainer group posed as journalists from prominent crypto news sites including Decrypt and Cointelegraph and contacted victims and interviewed some of them. The process took between one and three days and eventually led to a know-your-customer (KYC) process and then a compromise.

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Recent targets of Pink Drainer include OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, cross-chain application company Evmos, Orbiter Finance, and Pika Protocol.

“Hackers sent phishing links through Discord accounts they had access to. Many users mistakenly opened malicious websites, resulting in the loss of their assets,” ScamSniffer researchers wrote in a report.

They noted that in recent months, there have been more and more scattered reports of “hacked events” on social media sites Discord and Twitter. Through analyzing blockchains such as Mainnet, Arbitrum, BNB, Polygon, and Optimism, Scam Sniffer found that almost all of the Discord attacks over the past month were linked to the same group.

“By analyzing the malicious sites created by Pink Drainer over the past month, we discovered that many Discord hacks were linked to them,” the researchers wrote.

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