Almost fell for this exact hack this morning. >> founder of a company DMs me on TG >> wants to catch up; sends calendly link >> I book call which has no video link >> when meeting time starts, they send zoom link >> zoom opens with 2 deepfake participants >> immediately call freezes and tells me to update zoom >> auto downloads a script >> now I'm a bit sus, so I msg founder saying I don't want to download or open files >> tells me it's fine, I tell him let's do google meets >> tells me "you're wasting our team's time" >> I say I'm not downloading and happy to reschedule >> deletes all msgs and ghosts Check founder's twitter and realize it was a NK hack. Be careful out there...

Ventali Tan
@_ventali
05-10
My old Twitter (@ventali_) and Telegram were hacked. The attacker is impersonating me to target tech and crypto founders & investors with phishing links — even using deepfakes of me on Zoom. >50 people were contacted. Some nearly clicked. I filed 10 reports to @X and haven't
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