Deep-Fake Zoom Call Just Cost ThorChain Founder $1.35 Million Crypto: Ledger CTO Warns
Charles Guillemet, the chief technology officer at Ledger wallet, has spread the word about the founder of THORChain and Vultisig falling for a trick pulled off by scammers who stole $1.35 million worth of crypto from his old Metamask software wallet, which he had “completely forgotten about”.The Ledger CTO issued a security warning to the community after the Thorchain cofounder shared the details of what happened. Other sources add that the hackers were likely from North Korea.Deep-fake Zoom call worth $1.35 millionThe victim, @jpthor, shared the details of the hack in several bullet points. He mentioned that his friends’ Telegram account was compromised, and then he, @jpthor, received what was most likely a fake Zoom link for a conference call, which later proved to be a deep-fake one.The key to the wallet was stored in his iCloud Keychain system, which obviously was also accessed by the hackers – this was a comment from the Ledger CTO: “the malware simply stole the keys,” and @jpthor did not even have to sign that transaction.$1.35M was stolen from a Thorchain cofounder. Yet another reminder: if your keys are stored in a software wallet, you’re only one malicious code execution away from losing everything.In this case, the victim didn’t even sign a malicious transaction, the malware simply stole the… pic.twitter.com/nLS4nWNFytThe overall amount of crypto lost to the hackers was worth approximately $1.35 million.The Ledger CTO said that holding that much money in a software wallet was insane, and holding a lot of crypto in such an online wallet means “it’s not a question of if you’ll be drained, but when.”