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So-called stream-jacking attacks are advancing at a worrying pace, according to new research fromBitdefender.
Advanced tactics
Such advancements involve coopting real and popular news announcements to monetize fake livestreams.
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For instance, threat actors conducted livestreams under the title “SpaceX Launch Starship Flight Test!
Elon Musk gives update on Starship!”
on popular YouTube channels that were marked as verified but which they had compromised.
These are usually compromised using info stealingmalwareto gain access tokens.
The scammers also used variants of the names of official channels.
In the case of @SpaceX, they used @spacex1.
Other events scammers have made use of include the trial of the SEC versus blockchain developer Ripple Labs.
Bitdefender noticed multiple fake livestreams around the important November 30th date in that trial.
Bitdefender has also noted the rise in deep fakes of popular figures in the crypto industry.
