Fashionable YouTuber and influencer Ranveer Allahbadia has fallen sufferer to a cyber assault that resulted in each of his YouTube channels being hacked and renamed “Tesla”. Additionally, all of the movies out there on each the channels had been deleted.
The hackers reporetedly used a misleading livestream that includes an AI-generated Elon Musk avatar, urging viewers to take a position cryptocurrency for a false promise of doubling their returns.The avatar directs viewers to scan a QR code and deposit Bitcoin or Ethereum on a suspicious web site, elonweb.web. This tactic is a basic “Bitcoin doubling” rip-off, generally utilized in cyberattacks concentrating on high-profile YouTube channels.
Message from YouTube
The channels have been deleted from YouTube. Beforehand, after we tried to seek for the channels, YouTube displayed a message stating that that they had been eliminated attributable to a violation of the corporate’s insurance policies. Nonetheless, now the dwell streaming platform reveals a message, ‘This web page is not out there. Sorry about that. Attempt trying to find one thing else.’
No official assertion but
Allahbadia has not but issued an official assertion relating to the hack. His most up-to-date publish on X (previously generally known as Twitter) was shared 14 hours in the past. The publish is a brief video from his podcast on communal concord.
