Pink Drainer: The Latest Threat to Crypto Investors.

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This news is a week old, but I still wanted to share it with all of you because I believe it will shock you when you read the full articles and see the prominent names in the tech industry who fell victim to these scammers. I have summarized the entire article here so that everyone can understand what happened. You can find the link to the article here.

According to the article, hackers managed to steal $3 million in digital assets from 1,932 victims by posing as journalists from well-known media outlets like Cointelegraph and Decrypt during fake interviews. The hacking gang, known as the 'Pink Drainer,' gained access to accounts through social engineering, tricking victims into trusting them and leading them to websites used to obtain Discord login keys. The gang was able to compromise accounts on various blockchains, including Mainnet, Arbitrum, BNB, Polygon, and others. This incident should serve as a wake-up call for both individuals and businesses to be more vigilant in securing their digital assets.

These hackers are incredibly cunning, and just thinking about how the victims must have felt after realizing they had been hacked sends shivers down my spine. My advice to everyone is simple: stay alert and stay informed about such topics if you want to avoid becoming a victim.

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[Who is John Galt?]

These hackers are incredibly cunning, and just thinking about how the victims must have felt after realizing they had been hacked sends shivers down my spine. My advice to everyone is simple: stay alert and stay informed about such topics if you want to avoid becoming a victim.

There are so many different attempts to scam on the Internet: emails, private messages in instant messengers, advertisements on hacked sites. When everything seems to be true, it can be quite difficult not to fall for such a trick. But when it comes to money, you need to check and double-check everything. And especially do not rush to do anything if something remains incomprehensible: do not log in through your applications on unknown sites, do not confirm incomprehensible actions with your wallet, such as receiving an unexpected airdrop, do not follow links from unsolicited emails. It is always important to remain extremely careful.

[ImThour]

Sadly, I was one of the victim of Address Poisoning which lead to $5000 loss in a single transaction. I was sending money from my Ledger wallet to Binance exchange and I copied the deposit address from My Ledger History instead of Exchange Deposit page, ended up losing $5k which is a big amount for me. But it's okay, that's how you learn.

DeFi is still risky and that's why I still promote big exchange platforms for newbies.

[Coyster]

Op your link is broken, thus it is not opening; here's another link.

These hackers are targeting Discord and Twitter accounts, and they perpetrate their scam once they take control of the account, they pretend to be crypto journalists carrying out random interviews before sending their victims a link to perform KYC to prove their identity. It is so alarming how people easily believe it when random people contact them over the internet, they do not even verify if the person is who they claim to be and the next thing they are clicking on links and following instructions dished out by the scammer.

Do not trust; but verify and do not click on links sent to you by random strangers who send you unsolicited messages or try to build trust with you over the internet. Until it is proven otherwise; it is a scam!

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Maybe people should really learn how important it is to keep assets in wallet installed in completely airgapped devices such that even when such security breaches happen. The hacker won't be able to access the assets. I still can't understand why someone would have assets worth over $3M but can't even go through very strict security measures in order to ensure the safety of the asset from online hackers.

This also highlights the danger of storing private keys or seeds online.

[elevates]

There are so many different attempts to scam on the Internet: emails, private messages in instant messengers, advertisements on hacked sites. When everything seems to be true, it can be quite difficult not to fall for such a trick. But when it comes to money, you need to check and double-check everything. And especially do not rush to do anything if something remains incomprehensible: do not log in through your applications on unknown sites, do not confirm incomprehensible actions with your wallet, such as receiving an unexpected airdrop, do not follow links from unsolicited emails. It is always important to remain extremely careful.

What these scammers & hackers have is a lot of patience, they wait for days, weeks, and even months patiently to trap their victims. Most of us lack patience and when money is involved greed takes over. Every time I read about a new scam or hack I always think how much intelligent and cunning these guys are. It is not that easy to convince someone to throw their money into their wallets. With the AI they have become more powerful then they were earlier.

[Who is John Galt?]

What these scammers & hackers have is a lot of patience, they wait for days, weeks, and even months patiently to trap their victims. Most of us lack patience and when money is involved greed takes over. Every time I read about a new scam or hack I always think how much intelligent and cunning these guys are. It is not that easy to convince someone to throw their money into their wallets. With the AI they have become more powerful then they were earlier.

Almost all of the advice on how not to fall for scammers just says that scammers are trying to make the victim feel that the time for making a decision is very limited, that they need to act quickly, right now. So whenever someone pushes you and says you need to do something right now, it's best to develop the habit of saying no. There are very few cases where something really needs to be done urgently, but you can try to avoid numerous risks of fraud if you give yourself time to think and understand that the offer is too tempting to be true, and also if you conduct additional research on the issue, including, for example, to consult on the forum.

[aysg76]

Sadly, I was one of the victim of Address Poisoning which lead to $5000 loss in a single transaction. I was sending money from my Ledger wallet to Binance exchange and I copied the deposit address from My Ledger History instead of Exchange Deposit page, ended up losing $5k which is a big amount for me. But it's okay, that's how you learn.

DeFi is still risky and that's why I still promote big exchange platforms for newbies.

This is why it's said to double check the recipient address before sending or promoting up any transaction to the blockchain but feeling bad for your loss because the amount is big but hope you recover it somehow and treat it as lesson.

DeFi is like losing money when you send money to those platforms as we have already heard about so big hacks and breaches through these projects which have resulted in multi million dollars loss to the public and whoever has participated in them by keeping their funds over there so be safe from them.

[tabas]

Sadly, I was one of the victim of Address Poisoning which lead to $5000 loss in a single transaction. I was sending money from my Ledger wallet to Binance exchange and I copied the deposit address from My Ledger History instead of Exchange Deposit page, ended up losing $5k which is a big amount for me. But it's okay, that's how you learn.

This is heartbreaking, sorry for your loss. It's a lot of money and an expensive lesson.

DeFi is still risky and that's why I still promote big exchange platforms for newbies.

We may not like some of the biggest exchanges but they're easier to use and DeFi's aren't good as intro for the newbies unless they're willing to explore.
@OP, thanks for sharing the news and for everyone who has shared their experiences. These hackers will always reengineer whatever they can as they're focused in stealing others fund's. While these cons will keep on learning the new tech and possible technique that they can use for their victims. We as users and keepers of our wallets should also continuously learn on how to get protected in every inch that we can.

[drwhobox]

So basically they scammed tech savvy peoples who clicks and logged in to their website. Collect their discord login keys and hacked in their account. I don't know how these people fall for the scam but it does sounds scary.

Scammers taking advantage of internet from the beginning and this thing is going strong day by day. They always make a way of scamming people no matter how cautious they are.

[Dunamisx]

According to the article, hackers managed to steal $3 million in digital assets from 1,932 victims by posing as journalists from well-known media outlets like Cointelegraph and Decrypt during fake interviews.

We must be well detestable to any offer we are receiving from people through social media because they will definitely lure us to receive some vital information from us and claim they are official representative of a reputable organization or institution, this now call for us to understand some ways through which such people with this kind of phishy attempts could be recognized and totally avoided because they got to unleashed their attacks on us, they have already succeeded in attacking some in time past but we can always get ready never to fall their victim.

[Lucius]

This news is a week old, but I still wanted to share it with all of you because I believe it will shock you when you read the full articles and see the prominent names in the tech industry who fell victim to these scammers.

What prominent names are you talking about? I see some people there that I have never heard of...

According to the article, hackers managed to steal $3 million in digital assets from 1,932 victims by posing as journalists from well-known media outlets like Cointelegraph and Decrypt during fake interviews. The hacking gang, known as the 'Pink Drainer,' gained access to accounts through social engineering, tricking victims into trusting them and leading them to websites used to obtain Discord login keys.

It's really fascinating how naive people can be, because how else to call people who agree to KYC for an interview? This just proves that there are a lot of people who have no idea what they are doing, and they have always been and will be easy targets for any average hacker.

After gaining the trust of their victims, threat actors inform them that they must perform a KYC (know your customer) validation to prove their identity, directing them to websites used to steal Discord authentication tokens.

[jrrsparkles]

There are so many different attempts to scam on the Internet: emails, private messages in instant messengers, advertisements on hacked sites. When everything seems to be true, it can be quite difficult not to fall for such a trick. But when it comes to money, you need to check and double-check everything. And especially do not rush to do anything if something remains incomprehensible: do not log in through your applications on unknown sites, do not confirm incomprehensible actions with your wallet, such as receiving an unexpected airdrop, do not follow links from unsolicited emails. It is always important to remain extremely careful.

What these scammers & hackers have is a lot of patience, they wait for days, weeks, and even months patiently to trap their victims. Most of us lack patience and when money is involved greed takes over. Every time I read about a new scam or hack I always think how much intelligent and cunning these guys are. It is not that easy to convince someone to throw their money into their wallets. With the AI they have become more powerful then they were earlier.

Because the scammers have nothing to lose if they can't able to find a prey but these days it's getting more easier to find preys with lots of strategies. They are not going to stop anywhere so it's our job to keep ourselves safe from the scammers at all the time.

There are many points to take from this scam like
1. Don't trust anything simply because they appear on popular sites.
2. Don't be lazy, always check the destination address where we send our assets twice or thrice.
3. Keep yourself updated about new scams trends.

[Sim_card]

Sadly, I was one of the victim of Address Poisoning which lead to $5000 loss in a single transaction. I was sending money from my Ledger wallet to Binance exchange and I copied the deposit address from My Ledger History instead of Exchange Deposit page, ended up losing $5k which is a big amount for me. But it's okay, that's how you learn.

Sorry for your lost,this is a big money for me because I am from a third world country. It is good to be very careful when transferring fund to make sure that we don't make mistake by copying and pasting  our private information,so that other people like scammers will not use it as an advantage over us

DeFi is still risky and that's why I still promote big exchange platforms for newbies.

I don't like DeFi and I have never thought of using it because of such risk involved. I will prefer using Binance,where I can easily make transactions and transfer whatever that is left back to my noncustodial wallet. These scammers will never stop coming up with different ways and methods to scam people