The co-founder of the Manta Network project, Kenny Li, shared an unpleasant experience regarding a hacking attempt that occurred during a video conference on the Zoom messenger. According to him, this incident was likely orchestrated by the Lazarus Group.
This is reported by Finway
Li recounted that he received a message from an acquaintance on Telegram asking him to call. After that, they organized a conference on Zoom, which Kenny joined on time. However, despite the fact that the participants’ cameras were on, he could not hear their voices, and his conversation partner requested access to his camera, which raised Li’s suspicions.
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Li also noted that he was informed about the need to update the application since he could not hear the other participants in the conference. At that moment, he was prompted to download a script file, after which he ended the call.
After that, Li tried to contact his conversation partner via Telegram, but found that the chat had been deleted. In the opinion of the co-founder of Manta Network, this was a hacking attempt by the Lazarus Group hackers.
“I believe that these could have been deepfakes instead of the real faces of the other conference participants,” Li noted.
Additionally, another member of the Manta Network team reported a similar incident where he was asked to download a “business version” of Zoom from a provided link. His suggestion to switch to Google Meet was declined.
Earlier, there was a report of an incident where the CEO of the NFT platform Emblem Vault, Jake Gallen, lost about $100,000 in crypto assets because malicious actors forced him to grant access to his computer during a Zoom call.