{"id":639317,"date":"2024-09-24T01:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T22:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/crypto-scammers-hack-openais-press-account-on-x\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T01:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T22:39:05","slug":"crypto-scammers-hack-openais-press-account-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-scammers-hack-openais-press-account-on-x\/","title":{"rendered":"#Crypto scammers hack OpenAI’s press account on X"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OpenAI\u2019s official press account on X app<\/a>ears to have been compromised by the same cryptocurrency scammers who did the same with company leadership in previous months.<\/p>\n

Late Monday afternoon, OpenAI Newsroom<\/a>, an account OpenAI recently created to spotlight product- and policy-related announcements, posted about a supposedly new OpenAI-branded blockchain token, \u201c$OPENAI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very happy to announce $OPEANAI [sic]: the gap between Al and blockchain technology<\/a>,\u201d the post read. \u201cAll OpenAI users are eligible to claim a piece of $OPENAI\u2019s initial supply. Holding $OPENAI will grant access to all of our future beta programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Of course, $OPENAI doesn\u2019t exist \u2014 and the post on X linked to a phishing site designed to mimic the legitimate OpenAI website (minus the conspicuously incorrect URL \u201ctoken-openai.com\u201d). A prominent \u201cCLAIM $OPENAI\u201d button on the fake site encouraged unsuspecting users to connect their cryptocurrency wallets, likely in an attempt to steal those users\u2019 login credentials.<\/p>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong> X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As of publication time, both the post and site were still up \u2014 as was a repost and a reply promising \u201cfurther information\u201d about the token \u201c[to] come later in the week.\u201d Comments on the malicious X post were disabled, making the hack less obvious than it might be otherwise.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve reached out to OpenAI and X for comment and will update this article if we hear back.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time accounts associated with OpenAI have been compromised as a part of phishing campaigns. <\/p>\n

In June 2023, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati\u2019s account posted a similar message promoting the fictional $OPENAI crypto token. And just three months ago, the accounts of OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and OpenAI researcher Jason Wei were hacked and used to publish scam posts identical to the post on the OpenAI News<\/a>room account today. <\/p>\n

Coinspeaker, reporting<\/a> on the hack of Murati\u2019s account last June, said that the scammers used a \u201ccrypto drainer\u201d tool that would funnel all the NFTs and tokens that victims had in their wallets to the scammers\u2019 wallet once they signed into the fake OpenAI site. <\/p>\n

Other high-profile X accounts belonging<\/a> to tech companies and celebrities have been hacked in recent years to promote crypto scams. In perhaps the most infamous example, in 2020, hackers targeted accounts belonging to Apple, Elon Musk and Joe Biden to post the address of a bitcoin wallet with the claim that the amount of any payments made to the address would be doubled and sent back. <\/p>\n

Americans lost $5.6 billion to cryptocurrency scams in 2023, a 45% increase from 2022, according<\/a> to the FBI. 2024 is on track to be as bad \u2014 or worse. More than 50,000 scams were reported through the first half of this year, costing consumers close to $2.5 billion, per<\/a> the FTC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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