We live in a very dangerous world. One that hackers are in and from the minimal mistake all your savings are gone. They are creative to steal and use methods non-conventional to have their mission fulfilled.
Imagine that you are seeing for a job and you are looking everywhere and somehow come across with a publication in the internet. That publication contain a very specific prompt: we are hiring and if you want more info click the link. You desperate and won't think twice to click and get enrolled.
You don't know that your simple access to the link opened a big door to have hackers to steal all your savings without you realizing. Your machine in that interaction got hit by a malware that will stole all your crypto while you, unnoticed, keep interacting with the recruiting job agency. A simple click to literally kill all your hopes: you were just looking for a job and ended up being robbed and you didn't even realized.
That is the way ** cyber criminals** are acting and becoming very dangerous.
A group in North Korea used the same trick to steal from more than 30,000 people, if we consider they infected the same number of devices, and steal from them more than $10M worth in crypto assets. The group posed as a crypto and AI recruiting firm and targeted people who were looking for jobs.
This is a major stealing and targeting people that are in the crypto and AI sector as the criminals knew that most of them have some kind of crypto on there machines. The moment they interacted with the groups link, the malware was released to infect them and steal from them right in the spot. Most didn't realized at first but after a carefully thinking they knew that got hijacked.
It worries me that the numbers of cyber criminals is increasing at rapid scale and even cyber security researchers putting so much work into defenses to avoid people being hit, the criminals are more evolved. They also do their research and come up with ideas to steal from people. Imagine: who could think that could get hacked just for looking for a job?
The hackers are bold, very smart and always thinking in new ways and tricks to steal. So better stay away from links that aren't familiar and avoid clicking on them no matter what.
You don't want to end up being robbed your last savings just because you neglected a simple warning: stay away from unknown links