"Hackers Steal $3 Million by Impersonating Crypto News Journalists"

A hacking group identified as "Pink Drainer" impersonates journalists in phishing attacks to compromise Discord and Twitter accounts in order to steal cryptocurrency. According to ScamSniffer analysts, Pink Drainer effectively compromised the accounts of 1,932 victims to steal approximately $2,997,307 worth of digital assets on the Mainnet and Arbitrum. The on-chain monitoring bots used by ScamSniffer found the threat actor when they stole $327,000 worth of NFTs from a single victim. The CTO of OpenAI Mirai Murati, Steve Aoki, Evmos, Pika Protocol, Orbiter Finance, LiFi, Flare Network, Cherry Network, and Starknet are believed to be recent targets. Pink Drainer hijacks accounts through social engineering, in which the threat actors spend a few days impersonating journalists from major media outlets such as Cointelegraph and Decrypt in order to conduct fake interviews with the victims. This article continues to discuss the Pink Drainer hacking group impersonating journalists in phishing attacks to compromise Discord and Twitter accounts for cryptocurrency-stealing attacks.

Bleeping Computer reports "Hackers Steal $3 Million by Impersonating Crypto News Journalists"