
A series of hackers managed to impersonate Binance Chief Communications Officer (CCO) Patrick Hillmann in a series of video calls with several cryptocurrency project representatives. The attackers used his AI holograms (deepfakes of his image) described by Hillman for this purpose, tricking representatives of these projects into saying they were helping Hillmann get listed on exchanges. It made me think.
Binance CCO Patrick Hillmann impersonated by a third party
Hackers and scammers are improving their tactics by incorporating more technical tools into their schemes. Binance Chief Communications Officer (CCO) Patrick Hillmann said: report Last week, we talked about a new and sophisticated method in which the attacker used his image to perform list fraud operations.
Hillman said hackers had successfully programmed his AI (artificial intelligence) hologram. The hologram was able to trick these projects into believing that they were being considered for listing on Binance and that Hillmann was part of this operation.
The plans to go public were discovered when these members contacted Hillman and thanked him for giving him the opportunity to go public. However, he did not know about these meetings as he did not participate in his Binance listing process.
Hillman did not disclose which cryptocurrency projects were targeted or the details of the funds invested in the questionable listing services.
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Binance’s CCO also warned about the rise of this type of impersonation scam on multiple social media platforms across the internet. Regarding this, Hillman said:
Beyond this latest incident, there has been a recent spike in hackers posing as Binance employees and executives on platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Telegram. We are ready to protect our users and ecosystem.
Binance’s listing process does not involve third parties, Hillmann clarified, and project listing proposals are only received directly via the listing application page.According to his blog post It was published Last year, Binance did not apply fixed listing fees to these projects. Binance explains the value of listing fees as follows:
There are no fixed numbers. Please suggest a suitable number. Show your willingness to contribute to social impact.
Additionally, all fees collected by the exchange will be donated to Binance Charity, an exchange-sponsored blockchain tracking charity.Also his Bluebenx, a Brazilian cryptocurrency investment platform victim Such a scam these days.
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