Within 10 minutes of the hacker’s attack, the popular private TV channel ‘Somoy’ of the country got its YouTube channel back. YouTube authorities are investigating these foreign hackers working with crypto currency as verified channels. That’s why even though the channel is back, the name changed by the hackers has not been changed yet.
Similarly, the attack occurred in the middle of Cyber Awareness Month. However, it was not possible to immediately know the extent of damage to the channel. Last seven hours ago, a special report about Bangladeshis depositing money in Swiss banks was aired on its live TV news. No videos were active in the home of the last channel. But in the video’s option, the previous videos were active.
Earlier on Sunday at 12:30 PM, Ethereum 2.0 hackers took over 4 channels out of 5 TV channels. However, by 12:40 pm, Salahuddin Salim, the IT head of Somoy TV, confirmed that the channel’s admin access would be returned to them. However, hackers have deleted many content from the main channel in these 10 minutes. Still, he is optimistic about getting the YouTube content back.
He told DigiBangla that leading popularity channels like Somoy TV, Somoy News, Somoy TV Live, Somoy TV Bulletin and Sports YouTube channels were briefly taken over by hackers. But we managed to get it back within half an hour. Basically, hackers are able to do this crime by spreading phishing and malware through the content of the channel’s Gmail address. We have changed the mail and spread all the content already. Hopefully, the entire channel will be normal in another couple of hours. However, YouTube authorities have already initiated to identify the hackers. We are not making any changes to the content page for the sake of their investigation. So even if the video cannot be seen on the home page, it can be seen by going to the video section.
Somoy TV’s YouTube channel was renamed ‘Ethereum 2.0’ after it was hacked. There’s even a video live, using a photo of Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin as a thumbnail. The channel has more than 1 crore 72 lakh subscribers on YouTube. This same hacker had previously hacked Channel 24 and kept it under control for two days.
Somoy TV has 5 more channels under one YouTube channel. Among them, a page with 49 lakh 50 thousand subscribers has been named ‘Ethereum 2.0’. Ethereum logo has been displayed as profile photo. The live telecast time is shown on October 16 at 12:40 PM.
An update to the cryptocurrency Ethereum ‘Ethereum 2.0’ is expected to arrive soon. Investing.com’s latest crypto statistics after the hacking of Somoy TV’s YouTube channel show that Ethereum is up 0.59 percent, while Bitcoin is up 0.02 percent over the same period.
Ethereum is second only to Bitcoin in the crypto world. It currently has a market cap of over $15,700 million. Its founder Vitalik Buterin is known as the crypto godfather for Ethereum’s versatile uses.