{"id":18433,"date":"2024-11-08T16:48:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/second-season-of-hamster-kombat-triggers-new-scam-wave\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T16:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:48:34","slug":"second-season-of-hamster-kombat-triggers-new-scam-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/second-season-of-hamster-kombat-triggers-new-scam-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Season of Hamster Kombat Triggers New Scam Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement of a new season for the Telegram clicker game Hamster Kombat has triggered a wave of spam from fraudsters. This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/1787029\/anton-belyi-maria-kolobova\/syr-sbor-aferisty-voruut-dannye-s-pomosu-novogo-sezona-homaka\">Izvestia<\/a>, citing data from Kaspersky Lab.<\/p>\n<p>In their messages, hackers impersonating the game&#8217;s developers offer participation in an airdrop of HMSTR tokens valued between $300,000 and $3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The attached link leads to a malicious site that requires the connection of a cryptocurrency wallet. The permissions requested, if approved, grant attackers full access to players&#8217; assets.<\/p>\n<p>Fraudsters are also creating phishing pages linked to the clicker. In October, BI.ZONE experts identified 241 domains containing the word hamster.<\/p>\n<p>According to the updated roadmap of Hamster Kombat, the second airdrop is scheduled for spring 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Back in June, analysts from F.A.C.C.T. <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/fraudsters-target-hamster-kombat-players\">recorded<\/a> two fraudulent campaigns targeting clicker players on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the project is rapidly losing its player base\u2014since its listing in September, it has decreased by 88%, from 300 million to 36.3 million users.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the developers of Hamster Kombat hinted at the imminent launch of the second season and commented on the decline in HMSTR&#8217;s price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement of a new season for the Telegram clicker game Hamster Kombat has triggered a wave of spam from fraudsters. This is reported by Izvestia, citing data from Kaspersky Lab. In their messages, hackers impersonating the game&#8217;s developers offer participation in an airdrop of HMSTR tokens valued between $300,000 and $3 million. The attached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1158,44,1586],"class_list":["post-18433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-airdrops","tag-cybercrime","tag-hamster-kombat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"162","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}