Mysterious Elon Musk-themed Crypto Hackers Take Over S Korean Gov’t YouTube Channels
Multiple South Korean government-run YouTube channels have been hacked by what, at first glance, appear to be crypto scam operators.
One of the hacks took place nation’s on a government channel operated by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism – with another taking over a site used to promote South Korea to overseas tourists called Imagine Your Korea. Another attack hit a channel operated by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Imagine Your Korea has some 509,000 subscribers, and its videos have over 500m views.
The ministry explained, per Chosun Ilbo and the Electronic Times, that certain channel names and profiles had been changed, and that hackers began to live-stream crypto-related videos beginning in the early morning of September 1.
The hackers renamed the channels “SpaceX Invest,” and claimed to provide investors with a way to make money from investing in coins related to Elon Musk’s SpaceX project.
Quite what SpaceX Invest is attempting to sell, however, is unclear. The hackers do not appear to have included any links to bogus exchanges or attempted to promote any specific coins with their broadcasts on the channels.
But the attackers appear to have retained the Korean government logo and name during the broadcasts – a factor that appears to have wrought confusion among subscribers.
The hackers also appeared to have broadcast a video featuring an interview with Musk, along with Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood and Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey.
Cryptonews.com was able to identify this video as having been lifted from a three-way discussion on bitcoin (BTC) named “The B-Word,” which was first aired on various YouTube channels last year.
Hackers appear to have pirated this video and posted it to other channels
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