Recently, a rather outrageous thing happened in the circle - the WeChat account of a head exchange executive was hacked, and the account thief was quite good at playing, directly using this account to shout Mubarakah tokens, and cashed out about 55,000 dollars in a short period of time. This wave of operations once again proves that in the currency circle, the celebrity effect is a walking ATM.
When it comes to WeChat theft, in fact, ordinary people also have to have a snack. Most of the cases are nothing more than these rollover postures:
The first is the most common - the mobile phone number is not used and thrown away, completely forgetting that WeChat is still tied, and new users can receive a verification code in minutes after taking over.
The second is exclusive to the cheap party, dare to click any phishing text message, and the Trojan virus lives directly into the mobile phone.
The third kind of people who love to toss understand - scan the code every day to clean up zombie fans, test friends to delete or something, those mini program backdoors are more than your backdoor.
The fourth type of gamers should pay attention, free skins are a good thing, nine out of ten are exchanged for your login information.
The last high-tech point - SMS verification code is intercepted, which ordinary people can't prevent and can only admit it.
In short, account security is really not careless, especially in the cryptocurrency circle, WeChat has some sensitive information.
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BlockchainTalker
· 1h ago
actually if we examine this through the lens of game theory... the real vulnerability isn't the account itself, it's the social layer. people underestimate how asymmetric the attacker-defender game is tbh
ngl the free skin angle hits different tho—most gamers don't realize they're literally trading auth credentials for cosmetics. it's wild when you think about it
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LiquidatorFlash
· 16h ago
$55,000 is gone, and the liquidity of celebrity accounts is more fierce than stablecoins... Now how many people have to check their verification code settings
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BrokenYield
· 16h ago
nah this is exactly why i never trust celebrity endorsements in crypto... dude literally became a liquidity event lmao
Recently, a rather outrageous thing happened in the circle - the WeChat account of a head exchange executive was hacked, and the account thief was quite good at playing, directly using this account to shout Mubarakah tokens, and cashed out about 55,000 dollars in a short period of time. This wave of operations once again proves that in the currency circle, the celebrity effect is a walking ATM.
When it comes to WeChat theft, in fact, ordinary people also have to have a snack. Most of the cases are nothing more than these rollover postures:
The first is the most common - the mobile phone number is not used and thrown away, completely forgetting that WeChat is still tied, and new users can receive a verification code in minutes after taking over.
The second is exclusive to the cheap party, dare to click any phishing text message, and the Trojan virus lives directly into the mobile phone.
The third kind of people who love to toss understand - scan the code every day to clean up zombie fans, test friends to delete or something, those mini program backdoors are more than your backdoor.
The fourth type of gamers should pay attention, free skins are a good thing, nine out of ten are exchanged for your login information.
The last high-tech point - SMS verification code is intercepted, which ordinary people can't prevent and can only admit it.
In short, account security is really not careless, especially in the cryptocurrency circle, WeChat has some sensitive information.