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Meeten Malware Campaign Reportedly Undermines Web3 Security Using AI-Legitimized Branding
- Occurred
- Dec 6, 2024
- Published
- Dec 14, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Threat actors, using aliases such as "Meeten," "Meetio," and "Clusee," reportedly deployed AI-generated content to create fake company websites, blogs, and social media profiles, impersonating legitimate businesses in order to trick Web3 professionals and cryptocurrency users into downloading Realst malware. The malware allegedly targets macOS and Windows platforms, steals credentials, browser data, and cryptocurrency wallet information, exfiltrating sensitive data to remote servers.
Developers
- Meetone
- Meetio
- Meeten
- Cuesee
- Clusee
Deployers
- Meetone
- Meetio
- Meeten
- Cuesee
- Clusee
Harmed parties
- Web3 professionals
- Cryptocurrency users
- Targets of fraudulent professional opportunities
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI-generated content used to impersonate businesses and steal credentials and crypto wallet data constitutes unauthorized data collection and privacy breach.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8