Hackers announced the distribution 5 000 BTC и 50 000 ETH by names microstrategy – Bits Media

Hackers hacked the account of the Nigerian news edition of Nigerian Business Day on Twitter, and then published information about the distribution of BTC and ETH on behalf of Microstrategy CEO Michael Silor.

According to tweets from the compromised account Nigerian Business Day from more 89 000 subscribers, Microstrategy management allegedly announced the distribution 5 000 BTC и 50 000 ETH. The attackers said, what interested users must send from 0.1 to 20 Btc or from 0.5 to 200 ETH to the specified address for donations, promising to send them in return for a doubled amount.

Besides, Hackers published these messages in the form of comments on the tweet of cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Kucoin, as well as under the publications of the general director of Tesla, Ilona Mask (Elon Musk), To expand the audience coverage. However, attempts by attackers to appropriate alien crypto acts remained unsuccessful - they managed to lure only users 0.06 ETH ($104).

Recently, a massive surge in the activity of scammers has been observed in social networks. Often they pretend to be influential people in the cryptocurrency industry. For example, Recently, attackers tried to deceive the owners of cryptocurrency projects with the help of a dipteum, Trying to impersonate the director of public relations by Binance Patrick Hillmann (Patrick Hillmann).

Recall, what in 2020 year scammers made a mass hacking of accounts on Twitter, belonging to the founders of large trading floors and famous personalities, Including Bill Gatesu (Bill Gates), Ilon Mask and Michael Bloomberg (Michael Bloomberg). Attackers published reports from these accounts about the distribution 5 000 The government of Bulgaria demanded a report for the withdrawn cryptocurrency.