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Crypto Scammers Exploit: Elon Musk Speaks on Cryptocurrency

By Oliver Devane 

Update: In the past 24 hours (from time of publication)  McAfee has identified 15 more scam sites bringing the total to 26. The combined value of the wallets shared on these sites is over $1,300,000 which is an increase of roughly $1,000,000 since this blog was last published. This highlights the scale of this current scam campaign. The table within this blog has been updated to include the new sites and crypto-wallets.

McAfee has identified several Youtube channels which were live-streaming a modified version of a live stream called ‘The B Word’ where Elon Musk, Cathie Wood, and Jack Dorsey discuss various aspects of cryptocurrency.  

The modified live streams make the original video smaller and put a frame around it advertising malicious sites that it claims will double the amount of cryptocurrency you send them. As the topic of the video is on cryptocurrency it adds some legitimacy to the websites being advertised.  

The original video is shown below on the left and a modified one which includes a reference to a scam site is shown on the right.  

We identified several different streams occurring at a similar same time. The images of some are shown below: 

The YouTube streams advertised several sites which shared a similar theme. They claim to send cryptocurrency worth double the value which they’ve received. For example, if you send 1BTC you will receive 2BTC in return. One of the site‘s frequently asked questions (FAQ) is shown below: 

Here are some more examples of the scam sites we discovered: 

The sites attempt to trick the visitors into thinking that others are sending cryptocurrency to it by showing a table with recent transactions. This is fake and is generated by JavaScript which creates random crypto wallets and amounts and then adds these to the table. 

The wallets associated with the malicious sites have received a large number of transactions with a combined value of $280,000 as of 5 PM UTC on the 5th of May 2022 

Scam Site	Crypto Type	Wallet	Value as on 5PM UTC 5th May 2022
22ark-invest[.]org	ETH	0x820a78D8e0518fcE090A9D16297924dB7941FD4f	$25,726.46
22ark-invest[.]org	BTC	1Q3r1TzwCwQbd1dZzVM9mdFKPALFNmt2WE	$29,863.78
2xEther[.]com	ETH	0x5081d1eC9a1624711061C75dB9438f207823E694	$2,748.50
2x-musk[.]net	ETH	0x18E860308309f2Ab23b5ab861087cBd0b65d250A	$10,409.13
2x-musk[.]net	BTC	17XfgcHCfpyYMFdtAWYX2QcksA77GnbHN9	$4,779.47
arkinvest22[.]net	ETH	0x2605dF183743587594A3DBC5D99F12BB4F19ac74	$11,810.57
arkinvest22[.]net	BTC	1GLRZZHK2fRrywVUEF83UkqafNV3GnBLha	$5,976.80
doublecrypto22[.]com	ETH	0x12357A8e2e6B36dd6D98A2aed874D39c960eC174	$0.00
doublecrypto22[.]com	BTC	1NKajgogVrRYQjJEQY2BcvZmGn4bXyEqdY	$0.00
elonnew[.]com	ETH	0xAC9275b867DAb0650432429c73509A9d156922Dd	$0.00
elonnew[.]com	BTC	1DU2H3dWXbUA9mKWuZjbqqHuGfed7JyqXu	$0.00
elontoday[.]org	ETH	0xBD73d147970BcbccdDe3Dd9340827b679e70d9d4	$18,442.96
elontoday[.]org	BTC	bc1qas66cgckep3lrkdrav7gy8xvn7cg4fh4d7gmw5	$0.00
Teslabtc22[.]com	ETH	0x9B857C44C500eAf7fAfE9ed1af31523d84CB5bB0	$27,386.69
Teslabtc22[.]com	BTC	18wJeJiu4MxDT2Ts8XJS665vsstiSv6CNK	$17,609.62
tesla-eth[.]org	ETH	0x436F1f89c00f546bFEf42F8C8d964f1206140c64	$5,841.84
tesla-eth[.]org	BTC	1CHRtrHVB74y8Za39X16qxPGZQ12JHG6TW	$132.22
teslaswell[.]com	ETH	0x7007Fa3e7dB99686D337C87982a07Baf165a3C1D	$9.43
teslaswell[.]com	BTC	bc1qdjma5kjqlf7l6fcug097s9mgukelmtdf6nm20v	$0.00
twittergive[.]net	ETH	0xB8e257C18BbEC93A596438171e7E1E77d18671E5	$25,918.90
twittergive[.]net	BTC	1EX3dG9GUNVxoz6yiPqqoYMQw6SwQUpa4T	$99,123.42

Scammers have been using social media sites such as Twitter and Youtube to attempt to trick users into parting ways with their cryptocurrency for the past few years. McAfee urges its customers to be vigilant and if something sounds too good to be true then it is most likely not legitimate.  

Our customers are protected against the malicious sites detailed in this blog as they are blocked with McAfee Web Advisor  

Type	Value	Product	Blocked
URL – Crypto Scam	twittergive[.]net	McAfee WebAdvisor	YES
URL – Crypto Scam	tesla-eth[.]org	McAfee WebAdvisor	YES
URL – Crypto Scam	22ark-invest[.]org	McAfee WebAdvisor	YES
URL – Crypto Scam	2xEther[.]com	McAfee WebAdvisor	YES
URL – Crypto Scam	Teslabtc22[.]com	McAfee WebAdvisor	YES
URL – Crypto Scam	elontoday[.]org	McAfee WebAdvisor	YES
URL – Crypto Scam	elonnew[.]com	McAfee WebAdvisor	YES
URL – Crypto Scam	teslaswell[.]com	McAfee WebAdvisor	YES
URL – Crypto Scam	2x-musk[.]net	McAfee WebAdvisor	YES
URL – Crypto Scam	doublecrypto22[.]com	McAfee WebAdvisor	YES
URL – Crypto Scam	arkinvest22[.]net	McAfee WebAdvisor	YES

 

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Advancing our Secure Home Platform with DNS over HTTPS

On the internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) is the way regular people access websites such as ESPN.com or BBC.com. However, the internet uses a unique series of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to access websites which are tricky for humans to remember.  Web browsers typically interact with websites through IP addresses, and DNS translates websites into IP addresses so browsers can access Internet resources. Historically, this has been done in the form of unencrypted clear text that ISPs and security providers such as McAfee can read and act upon to sort through risky websites or to improve network performance and intelligence.

However, this also opens up vulnerabilities of security and privacy.  As an industry, (Apple, Microsoft, Google, and others) participants are moving toward encrypting this traffic to and from DNS servers with protocols such as DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Unless the ISP offers DoT/DoH decryption (translation) capabilities, traffic could go directly to outside DNS providers such as Google DNS and Cloudflare who do. Without this visibility, unsafe websites cannot be seen and blocked using DNS filtering technology. Customers can visit sites created by criminals that can trick them to steal their account credentials, download ransomware, or show inappropriate content to their kids.

We’re advancing our Secure Home Platform (SHP) technology to future proof the ability for our partners to protect their customers, their families, and their connected home devices. McAfee is the first in the market to build and introduce this technology. McAfee and OpenXchange have partnered to provide an integration of a forwarder/translator (PowerDNS) with the home router-based SHP product that will make it possible to keep the traffic within the ISP network, as shown in the diagram below – allowing DNS filtering even in encrypted DNS environments.

The ISP can continue to read the traffic and stands to benefit in several ways:

• Continued ability to offer security protections such as anti-virus, malware filtering, blocking phishing attempts, distinguishing legitimate services, content caching, and parental controls. McAfee Secure Home Platform protects customers/homes from potential harm from an average of 70 potential threats per week
• Helps defend against DDoS, man-in-the-middle, and botnet attacks
• More streamlined DoH connections – more private and secure, especially important to sophisticated consumers
• Locate content based on user demand, and hence improve performance
• The ISP is not burdened by support issues caused by traffic going outside their network and purview, e.g., to a third-party DNS provider – fewer unhappy customers and support calls due to fewer security incidents.
• Help comply with Government regulations – block bad actors, terrorist websites, illegal file-sharing, child abuse, national security, court-ordered regulatory blocklists, ban foreign gambling, etc.

Consumers in turn benefit from these additional capabilities that ISPs can provide in security, privacy, and performance.

If you are interested in McAfee’s exciting new DoT-DoH technology for the Secure Home Platform, please contact your McAfee Account Representative for further details.

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