On September 7, during the presentation of the new technology of the American company Apple, attackers launched parallel broadcasts on the YouTube video hosting, promoting Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptocurrencies on behalf of the company. This is reported by The Verge.
According to the publication, during the presentation in one of the videos titled "Apple Event Live. Apple CEO Tim Cook: Apple and Metaverse in 2022." At that moment, the logos of cryptocurrencies were broadcast, and links with the most dubious cryptosites were indicated on the page. The number of observations that watched the presentations was about 70 thousand people.
About 10 thousand people were able to watch another broadcast on the Apple Inc. channel. It was supposed to contain an interview with Cook and Musk about Apple and the metaverse, but instead viewers were shown a fake interview about bitcoins with the head of Tesla and ex-head of Twitter Jack Dorsey. After a while, the videos were deleted for violating YouTube's terms of service.
Earlier, Business Insider reported that hackers broke into the official channel of the South Korean government on YouTube on September 3 and launched a video on the topic of cryptocurrencies on it. After the attack, the scammers renamed the channel "SpaceX Invest", and the broadcast itself included an interview with Elon Musk.
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