{"id":9571,"date":"2024-01-09T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/netgear-and-hyundai-x-accounts-compromised-to-promote-crypto-scam\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T14:30:13","slug":"netgear-and-hyundai-x-accounts-compromised-to-promote-crypto-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/netgear-and-hyundai-x-accounts-compromised-to-promote-crypto-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Netgear and Hyundai X Accounts Compromised to Promote Crypto Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early January, cryptocurrency scammers breached the official X accounts of Netgear and Hyundai <span data-descr=\"\u0411\u043b\u0438\u0436\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u0412\u043e\u0441\u0442\u043e\u043a \u0438 \u0410\u0444\u0440\u0438\u043a\u0430\" class=\"old_tooltip\">MEA<\/span> to steal user assets. Together, the two pages have a following of 160,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over the weekend, the official account of NETGEAR and the official account of Hyundai Middle East &#038; Africa both were being used to spread drainers.<br \/>Currently both accounts are in a partially recovered state\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3ZmZs048AB\">https:\/\/t.co\/3ZmZs048AB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ViOFHSFH2\">pic.twitter.com\/2ViOFHSFH2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malwrhunterteam\/status\/1744243500181279220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From around January 6, the Netgear account was renamed to BRC App, posting links to a malicious website that promised $100,000 to the first thousand registered users.<\/p>\n<p>The Hyundai MEA account was transformed by the perpetrators into a &#8220;Binance Labs-supported cross-platform role-playing game Overworld.&#8221; When users visited the sites and connected their wallets to the platform, scammers gained full access to their cryptocurrencies and NFTs.<\/p>\n<p>The developers of the original Overworld have already warned followers about the fake accounts and urged caution.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/as0mWTCOLc\">pic.twitter.com\/as0mWTCOLc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OVERWORLD (@OverworldPlay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OverworldPlay\/status\/1744396109181485520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, Hyundai has regained access to its account and removed malicious links. Netgear has only partially regained control.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that creators of cryptocurrency projects fell victim to SIM swapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early January, cryptocurrency scammers breached the official X accounts of Netgear and Hyundai MEA to steal user assets. Together, the two pages have a following of 160,000. Over the weekend, the official account of NETGEAR and the official account of Hyundai Middle East &#038; Africa both were being used to spread drainers.Currently both accounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9570,"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":[1111,1171,40],"class_list":["post-9571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hyundai","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571","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=9571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}