Elon Musk has beforehand expressed assist for cryptocurrencies publicly, however the billionaire was not too long ago impersonated by cybercriminals who hacked an Australian broadcaster in an try to focus on gullible traders. Over the previous few years, Musk has shaken up the crypto market through posts on X (previously Twitter). Now, his reputation is being utilized by criminals to focus on crypto traders — particularly those that take the billionaire’s market commentary significantly. Deepfake movies of Musk selling rip-off tokens, faux airdrops, and false crypto schemes are reportedly spreading all through internet purposes.
Elon Musk deepfake movies displayed through Australian broadcaster
Cybercriminals managed to hack the YouTube channel of The Seven Network (popularly often known as Channel Seven) on Thursday following layoffs on the Australian broadcaster, based on a News.com.au report. After gaining management over the broadcaster’s account, the hackers displayed deepfake movies of Musk wherein he seems to say that he’s making a gift of crypto tokens.
In the doctored video, the Tesla chief might be heard vouching to return traders double of what they wire to a malicious deal with. As per the report, the livestream of this deepfake video garnered views from over 150,000 individuals on the compromised YouTube channel for Channel Seven.
Screenshots of the deepfake model of Musk selling the fraudulent crypto scheme on the YouTube channel — renamed by the criminals to ‘Tesla Channel’ through the hack — have surfaced on social media. One of the screenshots additionally reveals {that a} QR code was being displayed on the display screen together with a tagline ‘Scan or remorse’. YouTube is but to publicly react to the event.
@elonmusk Live cryptoScam utilizing your picture on YouTube now.
Channel says” 7NEWS Australia “
It seems as Tesla channel after clicking on the video when it begins.
Notified YouTube however no “Scam” class to report in drop menu.
Good luck fixing this and getting it shut down. pic.twitter.com/M6pG47xS2M— Greg Watts (@MeggaWatti_) June 27, 2024
Earlier this month, when SpaceX performed the launch of its Starship rocket, not less than 35 deepfake movies of Musk have been reportedly streamed on YouTube. In these movies, scammers displayed a faux video of Musk selling a rip-off crypto scheme asking individuals to ship crypto funds to a pockets deal with to get double in return.
100k+ individuals watching a rip-off SpaceX Starship Launch LIVE on YouTube proper now utilizing a convincing AI deepfake of Elon Musk on stage making an attempt to push crypto through the launch. Why will not @TeamYouTube do something about this? YouTube simply ignores all of the studies & it is ridiculous! :man-facepalming: pic.twitter.com/LxOt0H89Ms
— Barnacules Nerdgasm (@Barnacules) March 14, 2024
How Musk has reacted to earlier deepfake movies
It’s been some time since Musk has reacted to those deepfake movies of him selling crypto scams. Back in 2022, he responded after watching certainly one of these faux movies exploiting his identification. “Yikes. Def not me,” the billionaire quipped in response to a now-deleted publish.
Musk has in a roundabout way commented on deepfakes since that publish, however usually spoken about his intent to get rid of bot accounts spreading faux info round crypto and politics amongst different topics on X (previously Twitter). It is notable that the billionaire has not fairly been in a position to take action as but.
Earlier this month, Binance co-founder Yi He requested Musk to enhance the X’s privateness and safety measures after she discovered her identification being misused for selling a faux crypto token on X.
