Topic: Kobe Bryant's death has been used for scamming. - page 2. (Read 562 times)
I think this is more of hijacking than scamming, and it is normal for hackers to do any means to do their hacking activities and this time, they saw an opportunity of exploiting the death of a famous NBA player to do their illegal activities. I wonder if the file is a jpg format or an exe. Haven't heard a case about a .jpg extension carrying a malware and this would be my first time to hear it.
I hope my PC is not hacked, I love Kobe, I'm his fan and I download a picture of him as my deskstop wallpaper and I also do the same with my phone.
Look.
So far, I don't feel anything strange with my PC, I think I'm safe, and I am not too worry about downloading as most of my important files and information are stored in a dedicated computer for crypto alone.
Scammers and hackers are very smart, they are using every opportunity they can find just to steal from us, so we should be aware of that and what we should do is to prevent that from happening to us, and that's the reason why we make such good control of our relevant information.
LOL, just because the picture of Kobe were being used for scamming doesn't mean that all of the pictures of Kobe are having this hacking program. Besides, the hacking program is still under ongoing investigation and still not proven to be real. Well just wait for OP to update this new hacking Scheme. I do not think why the death of a certain basketball superstar would become an issue suddenly because of this hacking incident. Pretty sure if there are really event that happen as what stated then someone will get held liable to it after getting caught. Look.
So far, I don't feel anything strange with my PC, I think I'm safe, and I am not too worry about downloading as most of my important files and information are stored in a dedicated computer for crypto alone.
Scammers and hackers are very smart, they are using every opportunity they can find just to steal from us, so we should be aware of that and what we should do is to prevent that from happening to us, and that's the reason why we make such good control of our relevant information.
Everything is possible for hackers to do anything. This malware is an example. Even simple wallpaper pictures contains malware inside it. My first time to know about this since I am only aware of those apps containing malwares.
It is very important to know where those can be downloaded so we can be aware and prevent to visit and download such pictures. But regardless of the source or website, if we have crypto coins in our wallets, it is still "best" not to download anything for the sake of our funds. Safety and secured account is morr significant.
The location or link of the pictures should be known so that people can be warned early. One thing about this worm though is that it is an impressive work for those hackers to create a way to exploit unsuspecting people. We should create a info board that details different scams kind of like archive but scams only, I think that will help many websurfers so that they do not fall victims in case they encounter a different scam with similar scheme. Regarding the places where people download things is pretty faulty in my opinion because most of the time some legitimate sources can have bad apples in disguise. It is very important to know where those can be downloaded so we can be aware and prevent to visit and download such pictures. But regardless of the source or website, if we have crypto coins in our wallets, it is still "best" not to download anything for the sake of our funds. Safety and secured account is morr significant.
I hope my PC is not hacked, I love Kobe, I'm his fan and I download a picture of him as my deskstop wallpaper and I also do the same with my phone.
Look.
So far, I don't feel anything strange with my PC, I think I'm safe, and I am not too worry about downloading as most of my important files and information are stored in a dedicated computer for crypto alone.
Scammers and hackers are very smart, they are using every opportunity they can find just to steal from us, so we should be aware of that and what we should do is to prevent that from happening to us, and that's the reason why we make such good control of our relevant information.
Look.
So far, I don't feel anything strange with my PC, I think I'm safe, and I am not too worry about downloading as most of my important files and information are stored in a dedicated computer for crypto alone.
Scammers and hackers are very smart, they are using every opportunity they can find just to steal from us, so we should be aware of that and what we should do is to prevent that from happening to us, and that's the reason why we make such good control of our relevant information.
I got thinking that storing money (crypto currency) in a device that connected to internet will never be save even though in an exchange. I read several news on this morning and there is a cases where a thousand of bitcoin from the hacked exchange has sent to some exchanges. This is pointed out that your asset never be safe if you keep them in an exchange. Because the scammer can hack you phone when you try to open your account, such this malware who can attack to your account when you've downloaded something in the internet. You can store your asset on the cold wallet and sell it when you have profited.
Everything is possible for hackers to do anything. This malware is an example. Even simple wallpaper pictures contains malware inside it. My first time to know about this since I am only aware of those apps containing malwares.
It is very important to know where those can be downloaded so we can be aware and prevent to visit and download such pictures. But regardless of the source or website, if we have crypto coins in our wallets, it is still "best" not to download anything for the sake of our funds. Safety and secured account is morr significant.
It is very important to know where those can be downloaded so we can be aware and prevent to visit and download such pictures. But regardless of the source or website, if we have crypto coins in our wallets, it is still "best" not to download anything for the sake of our funds. Safety and secured account is morr significant.
Just do not understand what do people get by doing all this things, it’s the money they want it , so isn't doing the ethical hacking could help them and they will also get fame by doing good things and helping sites/apps etc by doing ethical hacking instead of this types of things. Now scam is increasing and very easily you can read anything related to such types of things happening around the world.
As long as they are having victims, it will not stop.
I don't know whats going on with their minds not even thinking that people needed that money than them. Anyway, thanks for this. Despite the time this was posted, it makes us aware of the possible tracks they can do to scam people. If this happened, any ways we can stop that bug from minin using our PCs?
Those people will do everything, as they are knowledgeable that there are victims that will continue being victimized by their works.
Sad to say that every fans who loves Kobe will have the chance being infected of this mining script,
once they download the file it will automatically run inside their machines without knowing it,.
Better to work extra with careful whenever you are dealing online, this info will help people to avoid getting infected, sharing it will
lessen the spread.
Just do not understand what do people get by doing all this things, it’s the money they want it , so isn't doing the ethical hacking could help them and they will also get fame by doing good things and helping sites/apps etc by doing ethical hacking instead of this types of things. Now scam is increasing and very easily you can read anything related to such types of things happening around the world.
As long as they are having victims, it will not stop.
I don't know whats going on with their minds not even thinking that people needed that money than them. Anyway, thanks for this. Despite the time this was posted, it makes us aware of the possible tracks they can do to scam people. If this happened, any ways we can stop that bug from minin using our PCs?
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Hackers are attempting to profit from the death of Kobe Bryant by hiding malware within downloadable pictures of the basketball legend.
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“We found a malicious HTML file posing as a Kobe Bryant wallpaper that contains a coin mining script.”
This is common even back then. The use of injecting malware to pictures and even pdf files can be done by simply using Kali linux and metasploit. I've read some of thread in here that talks about such image and file injection but I can't remember where I've read it. And I think it was expected that the death of a Legend could open a way to scammers and thieves to make profit out of it. But the issue here is simple, malwares and putting a mining script in it is simply legal. I assume that those makers doesn't know what entrepreneurship was lol. They can profit on the other way such as making items with Kobe in it..
Wow, pretty sure scammers becoming techie nowadays so I should be careful now in downloading malware programs or this one is a little bit tricky for just using picture which could download a hacking tool program. Really if one is holding crypto then definitely it is a good practice to use offline or hardware wallet for it especially for bitcoin. Not accessing online also would be advisable and only when it is really needed to avoid any possibilities of getting phished out using this program that they made to access your computer and gain important details in it like private keys to the wallet.
Kobe Bryant's death has been used for scamming.
Sadly this is nothing new. Scammers always use well known to general public events like disasters, death of famous people, famous people in general etc.This gets people attention to begin with, this is normal from psychological standpoint.
You just need to see past it, be couple steps ahead and not fall for such tricks.
This isn't new, but really goes to show how creative a piece of scam and malware can get.
Using a famous person's death might get some people's guard down in trusting the host, only to download what's essentially a piece of malicious code.
Thankfully for those that got this particular malware, it was mostly using their processor time for mining for someone else. It wasn't a full compromise at least according to how it was reported. This type of malware must also be easier to pass through antivirus software.
Using a famous person's death might get some people's guard down in trusting the host, only to download what's essentially a piece of malicious code.
Thankfully for those that got this particular malware, it was mostly using their processor time for mining for someone else. It wasn't a full compromise at least according to how it was reported. This type of malware must also be easier to pass through antivirus software.
Just do not understand what do people get by doing all this things, it’s the money they want it , so isn't doing the ethical hacking could help them and they will also get fame by doing good things and helping sites/apps etc by doing ethical hacking instead of this types of things. Now scam is increasing and very easily you can read anything related to such types of things happening around the world.
The fact that the people sees hackers as a bad person is probably the reason why they aren't doing ethical hacking. Only those who are working under a company or a high ranked organizations are the ones who are doing ethical hacking.In order for the hackers to make money, they will do everything even it is unethical like this. Didn't expect that they will use him for hacking but at the same I didn't surprised that they do it. Anything that can be used for hacking will be used by these stupid hackers. Lets just be vigilant and careful with what we are downloading.
Now scammers like to use the name famous people for scamming people, before they prove successful some hackers use accounts
twitter famous peoples. And the next picture of Kobe Bryant used for hiding malware, this cryptojacking worm is also terrible after
me read the article. Therefore I have two different devices for just browsing and looking for entertainment, with other device use for
transaction-specific finance that I do on the internet.
twitter famous peoples. And the next picture of Kobe Bryant used for hiding malware, this cryptojacking worm is also terrible after
me read the article. Therefore I have two different devices for just browsing and looking for entertainment, with other device use for
transaction-specific finance that I do on the internet.
Humanity is getting lost from the people day by day. A scammer's identity is the only scammer, so it's not surprising to me that someone getting the advantage of a dead person. More sadly, is that scammer using the processing power by hacking other computers. But I am a little confused, is it too much profitable for scammers? Because who knows how long the hacked computer will be online and need a good data connection as well.
Anyway, it's more dangerous for crypto-currency users since hackers are operating the computer. They might even hack our wallet. Increasing awareness regarding this kind of scam would save people and we shouldn't download anything from untrusted sources as well.
Anyway, it's more dangerous for crypto-currency users since hackers are operating the computer. They might even hack our wallet. Increasing awareness regarding this kind of scam would save people and we shouldn't download anything from untrusted sources as well.
Maybe they gained a lot in scamming the people. As we know that scammers and hackers would not make a crime for a cent only. If they wanna scam people, they will probably calculate their expenses and risks to their revenues.
It is really dangerous in cryptocurrency, that is why we should be more careful in clicking some sites because only one thing that we bait, our funds will gone. I hope this OP will become an alert for all of us here in crypto.
These people never get tired of trying different strategies just to scam people, they are sure pathetic losers in a bad way.
They always take opportunities in whatever extent that they can do, money matters and it's all about it.
Let's share this so that everyone are aware of this scam scheme using a dead big personality to fraud people.
It's better to exposed this hackers to help more fans to avoid certain activities now that we are already aware of this sharing it will
bring awareness to more people to prevent downloading this to their machines.
I wish they used their talent and skills in a good way, it surely be a good act and good thing to do instead of hacking and scamming people.
If they only do that for sure they can make much better opportunities but those hackers always looking for easy take
that's why they are in this kind of hacking.
Nonetheless, i hope they will not succeed that will serve as justice for using dead's man popularity.
Looking also for that same result, respect to Kobe and for this legacy to this sport.
I have seen an article that talks about the death of the legendary NBA player Kobe Bryant which has been used for scamming people.
They called it as crytojacking worm. As expcted, scammers uses this opportunity to take advantage for scamming people. The growing trend has been found within images of various celebrities in recent months, often in the form of wallpapers that can be downloaded to a person’s desktop or smartphone.
Cryptojacking software was recently discovered within high-resolution images of musician Taylor Swift ad the actress Scarlett Johansson.
Cyber security firm Sonicwall registered over 50 million cryptojacking attacks in the first half of 2019, typically in the form of social engineering or other online scams similar to the Bryant malware.
Sonicwall said cryptojacking techniques were evolving but that it remained “relevant as a lucrative option for cyber criminals”.
Here is the source.
Most sad moment for Kobe Bryant family why they use Kobe Bryant to make manipulated and scam the other, I think scammer is crazy and do not have ideas what is the best way to give support to Kobe Bryant, I think scammer always building every day although one by one under arest every time but not give impact for other scammer. Quote
Hackers are attempting to profit from the death of Kobe Bryant by hiding malware within downloadable pictures of the basketball legend.
Researchers at Microsoft Security Intelligence discovered that a desktop wallpaper of Bryant contained hidden software that secretly hijacked a person’s computer in order to mine cryptocurrency.
Researchers at Microsoft Security Intelligence discovered that a desktop wallpaper of Bryant contained hidden software that secretly hijacked a person’s computer in order to mine cryptocurrency.
They called it as crytojacking worm. As expcted, scammers uses this opportunity to take advantage for scamming people. The growing trend has been found within images of various celebrities in recent months, often in the form of wallpapers that can be downloaded to a person’s desktop or smartphone.
Cryptojacking software was recently discovered within high-resolution images of musician Taylor Swift ad the actress Scarlett Johansson.
Cyber security firm Sonicwall registered over 50 million cryptojacking attacks in the first half of 2019, typically in the form of social engineering or other online scams similar to the Bryant malware.
Sonicwall said cryptojacking techniques were evolving but that it remained “relevant as a lucrative option for cyber criminals”.
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“We found a malicious HTML file posing as a Kobe Bryant wallpaper that contains a coin mining script.”
Here is the source.
What?! C'mon. Using a dead person just to take advantage of others and earn money? These kind of people have no respect.
It shows how desperate they are but it also shows how smart they are. Personally, I didn't know that such kind of scheme exists. I'm a type of person who likes to download pictures of a beautiful place or my favorite person or celebrity so this is a warning for me to be more careful. Hackers and scammers are everywhere and they're smart. I guess the best way to outsmart them is for us to be more careful with what we do online and offline. Think before you click — always.
It shows how desperate they are but it also shows how smart they are. Personally, I didn't know that such kind of scheme exists. I'm a type of person who likes to download pictures of a beautiful place or my favorite person or celebrity so this is a warning for me to be more careful. Hackers and scammers are everywhere and they're smart. I guess the best way to outsmart them is for us to be more careful with what we do online and offline. Think before you click — always.
I didn't expect that this will may happen there is no really safe right now with the use of the devices because everything right now they are doing just to earn money. We cannot make any suspicious out there because it's just a normal picture most of us right now is downloading a lot of images to the Internet because this is the easiest now right now they can make a virus with the use of downloading those images.
When money talks, people will do anything about it because the world revolve around money.
If you don't have money, you are useless.
If you have money, you are powerful.
That's the mentality that is in the mindset of most of us, investors, that's why we are working so hard just to earn profits everyday.
That's the reason why they are so good and creative at stealing your money. These pathetic human beings are just stealing money from everyone using networks and software. That's the reason why I used two, hardware and software so that I have different wallets where I can store my money. Just don't click any suspicious link in a website or any suspicious ads because it can manipulate your computer's system. Always remember that hackers and scammers are everywhere, so be aware.
If we are talking about money most of the people getting greed and want to earn more if you want to earn daily profit you just need to think in the other way which is not common and easiest to get money and according to the post of OP, this is one of these.
Right now there is no safety information right here because we have a lot of access to the internet and everything we visit there are a cookie and digital footprint that can use to us and selling the information.
Just do not understand what do people get by doing all this things, it’s the money they want it , so isn't doing the ethical hacking could help them and they will also get fame by doing good things and helping sites/apps etc by doing ethical hacking instead of this types of things. Now scam is increasing and very easily you can read anything related to such types of things happening around the world.
When money talks, people will do anything about it because the world revolve around money.
If you don't have money, you are useless.
If you have money, you are powerful.
That's the mentality that is in the mindset of most of us, investors, that's why we are working so hard just to earn profits everyday.
That's the reason why they are so good and creative at stealing your money. These pathetic human beings are just stealing money from everyone using networks and software. That's the reason why I used two, hardware and software so that I have different wallets where I can store my money. Just don't click any suspicious link in a website or any suspicious ads because it can manipulate your computer's system. Always remember that hackers and scammers are everywhere, so be aware.
If we are talking about money most of the people getting greed and want to earn more if you want to earn daily profit you just need to think in the other way which is not common and easiest to get money and according to the post of OP, this is one of these.
Right now there is no safety information right here because we have a lot of access to the internet and everything we visit there are a cookie and digital footprint that can use to us and selling the information.
Just do not understand what do people get by doing all this things, it’s the money they want it , so isn't doing the ethical hacking could help them and they will also get fame by doing good things and helping sites/apps etc by doing ethical hacking instead of this types of things. Now scam is increasing and very easily you can read anything related to such types of things happening around the world.
When money talks, people will do anything about it because the world revolve around money.
If you don't have money, you are useless.
If you have money, you are powerful.
That's the mentality that is in the mindset of most of us, investors, that's why we are working so hard just to earn profits everyday.
That's the reason why they are so good and creative at stealing your money. These pathetic human beings are just stealing money from everyone using networks and software. That's the reason why I used two, hardware and software so that I have different wallets where I can store my money. Just don't click any suspicious link in a website or any suspicious ads because it can manipulate your computer's system. Always remember that hackers and scammers are everywhere, so be aware.
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