{"id":23660,"date":"2024-06-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinengineer.io\/?p=23660"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T07:07:40","slug":"australian-7news-youtube-channel-hijacked-by-crypto-scammers-using-deep-fake-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/australian-7news-youtube-channel-hijacked-by-crypto-scammers-using-deep-fake-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian 7News YouTube Channel Hijacked by Crypto Scammers Using Deep Fake Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto fraudsters stole the YouTube news channel of prominent <strong>Australian broadcaster Seven Network<\/strong>, known as <strong>7News<\/strong>, displaying videos including a <strong>deep fake of Elon Musk<\/strong> talking about cryptocurrencies. Rebranded to resemble Tesla, the channel showed an artificial intelligence-generated fake of the CEO endorsing a classic &#8220;<strong>double-your-money&#8221;<\/strong> fraud, promising to refund twice the value of any crypto sent to a certain address.<\/p>\n<p>About 150,000 people were seeing three livestreams including the phoney Musk at the time of the event. How many of these viewers were actual vs bots used to increase audience count is yet unknown. The stolen channel still showed the verification tick for the 7News YouTube channel even after connections to it were severed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_71 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/australian-7news-youtube-channel-hijacked-by-crypto-scammers-using-deep-fake-elon-musk\/#Response_and_Investigation_by_Seven_Network\" title=\"Response and Investigation by Seven Network\">Response and Investigation by Seven Network<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/australian-7news-youtube-channel-hijacked-by-crypto-scammers-using-deep-fake-elon-musk\/#Scammers_Use_of_Musks_Image\" title=\"Scammers&#8217; Use of Musk&#8217;s Image\">Scammers&#8217; Use of Musk&#8217;s Image<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/australian-7news-youtube-channel-hijacked-by-crypto-scammers-using-deep-fake-elon-musk\/#Incident_Timing_and_Broader_Context\" title=\"Incident Timing and Broader Context\">Incident Timing and Broader Context<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Response_and_Investigation_by_Seven_Network\"><\/span>Response and Investigation by Seven Network<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>A Seven Network<\/strong> spokesman informed The Sydney Morning Herald that the firm knew of the unusual behavior on certain of its YouTube channels. &#8220;Seven is investigating and working with YouTube to rectify the matter as quickly as possible,\u201d the spokesman stated.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/sec-chairman-gensler-ethereum-etf-process-proceeding-smoothly\/\">This Might Interest You:<\/a> SEC Chairman Gensler: Ethereum ETF Process \u2018Proceeding Smoothly\u2019<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the stated addresses containing just over $11,000 in total, the crooks&#8217; website sought numerous cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, and Dogecoin.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Scammers_Use_of_Musks_Image\"><\/span>Scammers&#8217; Use of Musk&#8217;s Image<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Frequent targets for fraudsters using Elon Musk&#8217;s image to give their operations legitimacy include More than thirty-five YouTube livestreams of bogus Musks pushing related frauds earlier this month aligned with SpaceX&#8217;s Starship rocket launch. Recently, Hong Kong&#8217;s securities regulator closed a company claiming to have created the technology for AI crypto trading using AI-faked footage of Musk on its social media profiles and website, thereby misrepresenting him.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Incident_Timing_and_Broader_Context\"><\/span>Incident Timing and Broader Context<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The assault on <strong>7News<\/strong>\u2019 YouTube account happened the same week that The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian announced on June 24 that Seven West Media, the parent company of Seven Network, will lose 150 positions, including those in marketing roles.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/coinengineernews\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click here to get the latest news from Coin Engineer!<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto fraudsters stole the YouTube news channel of prominent Australian broadcaster Seven Network, known as 7News, displaying videos including a deep fake of Elon Musk talking about cryptocurrencies. Rebranded to resemble Tesla, the channel showed an artificial intelligence-generated fake of the CEO endorsing a classic &#8220;double-your-money&#8221; fraud, promising to refund twice the value of any<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,2],"tags":[7033,6064,1201],"class_list":["post-23660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto-news","category-genel","category-news","tag-7news","tag-deepfake","tag-hack"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Australian 7News YouTube Channel Hijacked by Crypto Scammers Using Deep Fake Elon Musk - Coin Engineer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/australian-7news-youtube-channel-hijacked-by-crypto-scammers-using-deep-fake-elon-musk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Australian 7News YouTube Channel Hijacked by Crypto Scammers Using Deep Fake Elon Musk - Coin Engineer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Crypto fraudsters stole the YouTube news channel of prominent Australian broadcaster Seven Network, known as 7News, displaying videos including a deep fake of Elon Musk talking about cryptocurrencies. 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