Cryptocurrency venture capital firm Hypersphere investment partner Mehdi Farooq stated that after falling victim to a fake Zoom call phishing attack, funds from his 6 wallets were stolen, resulting in the loss of years of savings. Mehdi Farooq revealed that the attack began with a message sent by Alex Lin, someone he knew, on Telegram. They had interacted before, so the contact seemed routine. The latter shared a meeting link, and after joining the scheduled Zoom meeting and discovering there was no audio, shortly after running an update, his system was compromised. The hackers 'drained his savings of many years' in just a few minutes.