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On-chain threat monitoring system AegisWeb3 has issued a warning on X, alerting the community against phishing attacks imitating Friend.tech. According to AegisWeb3, a phony X account called @friendtech_web3 recently announced an airdrop for the Friend token and directed users to a fraudulent website. ️ Beware of phishing websites impersonating @friendtech️ A FAKE Twitter account @friendtech_web3 recently posted a tweet promoting an airdrop for $FRIEND and directing users to a phishing website. This tweet has garnered significant attention, with 674.2K views so far.… pic.twitter.com/9w7lWHKKxR — AegisWeb3 (@AegisWeb3) August 21, 2023 The bogus tweet has received much attention, with over 674,000 views thus far. You might also like: What is Friend.tech, social platform earning over $1m in fees Aegis’ warning comes on the heels of another scam update from Certik, a platform known for sending real-time tips about crypto scams and hacks. #CertiKSkynetAlert We have...

The Twitter account of artificial intelligence firm OpenAI’s chief technical officer was hacked on Friday to share a scam promotion of a fraudulent OpenAI cryptocurrency airdrop. Mira Murati’s tweets informed users of an ERC-20 token airdrop “driven by artificial-intelligence based language models.” The token’s name was OPENAI. A malicious link took users to a page that copied the likeness of another crypto and AI project called ChainGPT. The main difference between the two is the link offering users to connect their crypto wallet.   Someone has gained access to Mira Murati's Twitter account ( OpenAI CTO). pic.twitter.com/XUlm9LhL8S — Smoke-away (@SmokeAwayyy) June 2, 2023 One of the screenshots taken of the OpenAI Twitter scam in action. Read more: Crypto braces for impact of OpenAI ’s new GPT-4 As reported by Cointelegraph, a security researcher from the blockchain security firm Beosin told the publisher that the Twitter scam uses a crypto wallet draining k...