Lamborghini Carjackers Lured by $243M Cyberheist
Summary: Six men aged 18-26 from Florida were arrested after allegedly rear-ending a couple's new Lamborghini Urus in Danbury, Connecticut on Aug. 25, 2024, assaulting them with a baseball bat and binding them with duct tape before police pursued the crashed getaway van. Prosecutors said the couple was targeted because the conspirators believed their son had access to significant cryptocurrency, roughly a week after a $243 million phone-based social engineering heist on Aug. 19 that ZachXBT linked to a Danbury 19-year-old using the handle 'Swag.'
Key Takeaway: The $243 million theft was carried out by callers impersonating Google and Gemini support, who talked the victim into resetting multi-factor authentication and installing AnyDesk, which exposed their private keys - and the fallout reached the alleged perpetrators' families in the physical world.
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