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Fraudsters have deceived thousands of users by announcing the distribution of bitcoins.
Taking advantage of the excitement around the presentation of new products from Apple, the scammers launched a fake broadcast - during the broadcast, they announced the distribution of cryptocurrencies among viewers.
Before the presentation by the American company Apple, cybercriminals began to conduct their online stream in the main video hosting portals. The algorithms of different sites worked so that they brought this broadcast to the TOP of the search results, despite the fact that it was fake. As a result, thousands of users followed the link to start watching the broadcast.
The attackers inserted a video with Apple CEO Tim Cook into their stream, and placed a text ad about a cryptocurrency competition nearby, according to which the company allegedly bought 100 thousand bitcoins, and then decided to distribute 1,000 BTC and 10 thousand Ethereum to viewers. According to the terms, the participants had to go to the site and send from 0.1 BTC to the wallet indicated there, in order to then receive 2 times more cryptocurrency. They were promised the maximum winnings of 40 BTC or 1,000 ETH.
More than 165 thousand users simultaneously watched the stream, but later complaints began to arrive on the channel and it was blocked. The channel and the site specified in the broadcast are currently unavailable.
Taking advantage of the excitement around the presentation of new products from Apple, the scammers launched a fake broadcast - during the broadcast, they announced the distribution of cryptocurrencies among viewers.
Before the presentation by the American company Apple, cybercriminals began to conduct their online stream in the main video hosting portals. The algorithms of different sites worked so that they brought this broadcast to the TOP of the search results, despite the fact that it was fake. As a result, thousands of users followed the link to start watching the broadcast.
The attackers inserted a video with Apple CEO Tim Cook into their stream, and placed a text ad about a cryptocurrency competition nearby, according to which the company allegedly bought 100 thousand bitcoins, and then decided to distribute 1,000 BTC and 10 thousand Ethereum to viewers. According to the terms, the participants had to go to the site and send from 0.1 BTC to the wallet indicated there, in order to then receive 2 times more cryptocurrency. They were promised the maximum winnings of 40 BTC or 1,000 ETH.
More than 165 thousand users simultaneously watched the stream, but later complaints began to arrive on the channel and it was blocked. The channel and the site specified in the broadcast are currently unavailable.
