{"id":17138,"date":"2024-09-20T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/indian-supreme-courts-youtube-channel-hijacked-for-crypto-scam-promotion\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:24:39","slug":"indian-supreme-courts-youtube-channel-hijacked-for-crypto-scam-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/indian-supreme-courts-youtube-channel-hijacked-for-crypto-scam-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Supreme Court&#8217;s YouTube Channel Hijacked for Crypto Scam Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers seized control of the Indian Supreme Court&#8217;s YouTube channel to promote a scam involving Ripple and the cryptocurrency XRP.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcDP0mAyFCx3rhqMlntEP5rDvGOjBiLHUYNPIA_yqKjB2OdMay8JXIch4k3LP7fsi57Lc529JWEoW84rFNFBXowFOq1Y1VxlfpqnwQ03lri0TqEv6RoPgnZOMrorLyKByivHpvq0A3dwCHR4oNwZCMnOjEP?key=ljnAgkOLxq2YDylDM9iksw\" alt=\"YouTube-\u043a\u0430\u043d\u0430\u043b \u0412\u0435\u0440\u0445\u043e\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0441\u0443\u0434\u0430 \u0418\u043d\u0434\u0438\u0438 \u0432\u0437\u043b\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0440\u0435\u043a\u043b\u0430\u043c\u044b \u043a\u0440\u0438\u043f\u0442\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0430\u043c\u0430\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/supreme-court-india-youtube-hacked-ripple-xrp-scam?utm_source=rss_feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\">Cointelegraph<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On September 20, the perpetrators changed the channel&#8217;s name, which had 217,000 subscribers, and deleted all previous videos. They then launched a fake broadcast featuring Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers urged investments in a fraudulent token and spread phishing links. To attract attention, the video title predicted &#8220;XRP to rise to $2 this month.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>After some time, YouTube&#8217;s administration blocked the channel. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeVjpVUptcNEZShP52lEeE2SQKJQhh3xlC12_7vUbeFolbYOcBfiS_oj72LKSEnUK3sZDZAUCn3fLo57GQb-1VhtdawdrC-2gsC0EJdeL2NO2-Y4EYP5CQ9jkzRRUG3k7g5glq4iIHZOc5KLwKIVDdtNMYB?key=ljnAgkOLxq2YDylDM9iksw\" alt=\"YouTube-\u043a\u0430\u043d\u0430\u043b \u0412\u0435\u0440\u0445\u043e\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0441\u0443\u0434\u0430 \u0418\u043d\u0434\u0438\u0438 \u0432\u0437\u043b\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0440\u0435\u043a\u043b\u0430\u043c\u044b \u043a\u0440\u0438\u043f\u0442\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0430\u043c\u0430\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@supremecourtofindia5950\">YouTube<\/a>. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Account hacks on video hosting platforms are not new to the crypto community. In June, Dogecoin graphic designer known as DogeDesigner <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/deepfake-of-elon-musk-promotes-bitcoin-scam-on-youtube\">discovered<\/a> a YouTube livestream featuring a deepfake of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk promoting a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Back in July 2022, hackers breached the British Army&#8217;s Twitter and YouTube accounts to advertise crypto fraud. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers seized control of the Indian Supreme Court&#8217;s YouTube channel to promote a scam involving Ripple and the cryptocurrency XRP. Source: Cointelegraph. On September 20, the perpetrators changed the channel&#8217;s name, which had 217,000 subscribers, and deleted all previous videos. They then launched a fake broadcast featuring Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse. The scammers urged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,1103],"class_list":["post-17138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"34","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}