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Elon Musk’s Crypto Video Appeared on a Hacked South Korean YouTube Account

Posted on the 04 September 2022 by Nftnewspro
Elon Musk’s crypto video appeared on a hacked South Korean YouTube account

It was said that a South Korean government YouTube account was hacked and renamed “SpaceX Invest.” The account then posted fake videos of Elon Musk talking about cryptocurrencies.

On September 3, hackers took over the South Korean government’s YouTube account for a short time and changed the name so they could livestream content about cryptocurrencies. But, according to a report from Yonhap News Agency, the account was quickly

The following screenshot was sent to YNA by a location. It shows that the stolen channel has been renamed SpaceX Invest and is now showing movies of Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX.

The main cause of the incident was found to be the stolen YouTube channel ID and password. Google is also said to have checked out the flaw. Binance did an internal search to find out who was behind a recent attack on KyberSwap that stole $265,000 in customer money.

#Binance security team has identified two suspects for yesterday's KyberSwap hack. We have provided the intel to the Kyber team, and are coordinating with LE (law enforcement).
Stay #SAFU. https://t.co/tbQBGaGTNG

— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) September 3, 2022

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the CEO of Binance, said that the company’s security team had found two people and given this information to KyberSwap and the police. “Binance is now playing the role of a big brother in the crypto space. Binance has gone beyond securing its platform to securing the entire crypto ecosystem.”

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