[WEEX Co-founder and CSO Ethan: Beware of Targeted Scams] According to Mars Finance, WEEX co-founder and Chief Security Officer (CSO) Ethan posted on social media, warning of a significant increase in security risks recently. Criminals are impersonating investors, partners, or well-known KOLs, using cooperation, investment, or resource matching as pretexts to carry out targeted scams against project owners and industry practitioners.
Ethan stated that such attacks are often not simple phishing links, but rather involve prolonged communication, identity spoofing, and enticement through social trust to ultimately guide victims to execute files, access specific pages, authorize signatures, or leak internal information.
He reminded project owners and practitioners that they must conduct multiple verifications before any operation involving permissions, authorizations, documents, or funds, and should not lower security standards because of the other party's "status halo".
Ethan emphasized, "In the security field, trust cannot come from titles, only from verification." He also stated that he would never request any form of system access, file execution, or authorized operation through private messages or third-party channels.
