On December 31, Ethan, co-founder and chief security officer (CSO) of WEEX, posted on social media that there has been a significant increase in security risks recently. Criminals are impersonating investors, partners, or well-known KOLs to carry out targeted fraud against project owners and industry practitioners under the guise of cooperation, investment, or resource matching.
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 authorization through private messages or third-party channels.
