Atlas Quantum - How they created the fake balance on video

hitbtc_how_to_fake_balance.md

Here is how I've been able to replicate the same "behavior" showed at Atlas "prove" video.

Take a closer look when the balance page starts to show, and "error" appears at the page top, this specific error ONLY triggers when the website could not establish a connection to the HitBTC socket (as anyone can see at the code) So to test it, I've developed this in 30 minutes:

Step 1) Edit computer network hosts and add: 127.0.1.1       st.hitbtc.com

This will prevent the website to find the socket to account info, so the error will appear at the top of the balance page, as we can see here:

Step 2) Install any JS injection like "tampermonkey" and add the script to run at the balance pages:

// Removes the error message (https://imgur.com/ykCViVM)
$("div[class*=styles__alert]").remove()

// Set all balances to zero (as we can see at the video) (https://imgur.com/ggRzH6G)
$("div[class*=main-balance]").html("0");
$("div[class*=styles__cell__cash]:not(:first)").html("0");

// Update BTC and USDT balance (https://imgur.com/ggRzH6G)
$("div[class*=styles__cell__cash]:not(:first)").eq(0).html("1,862.39021193");
$("div[class*=styles__cell__cash]:not(:first)").eq(2).html("5,418,742.84");

So this shows how easily people can be fooled by these scams:

To test propose, you can open the "developer tools" (F12) and paste the JS code into "console" tab to simulate the balance updates (don't need to block the connection, I've done this just to replicate the exact video)

And here is a video of the execution: https://streamable.com/nrd3d

And here is a video of the execution: https://streamable.com/nrd3d

Hi @joaoescribano, what about the balances shown on top right screen? Even if they used JS injection shouldn't the balances get aligned properly like here?

As you can see there's a "margin-left: 50px" on the "Deposit" element that would ensure that

What do you think happened here?

I didn't do anything at the top page, just changed the balances at the table... as you can see in my video/prints

To be true, to change all this is easy too... just need more time working at the JS to propertly add the correct info, paddings, margins, do the right alignment (and keep the model HitBTC showed at twitter).

As HitBTC noticed better than me, is that there are many errors at the page... the number precision is wrong, number formatting is also wrong... and all this can be "solved" with a better JS (which i'll not do, my part of all this is already done)

I think no one is better than HitBTC to say how it's layout is made... it's pretty common to developers create methods to "align" elements after adding it to the page. It's like "fingerprints"... that's why Atlas got caught

Ok... i've gotta to test and no.. they seems to faked it using some video editor... i don't know... cuz changing the top balances seems to keep the numbers aligned as well HitBTC said...

$("div[class*=styles__balanceVal] span").eq(0).html("123456789.123456789");
$("div[class*=styles__balanceVal] span").eq(1).html("0.123456789");

Ok... i've gotta to test and no.. they seems to faked it using some video editor... i don't know... cuz changing the top balances seems to keep the numbers aligned as well HitBTC said...

$("div[class*=styles__balanceVal] span").eq(0).html("123456789.123456789");
$("div[class*=styles__balanceVal] span").eq(1).html("0.123456789");

Exactly, that's my point... it seems it was more a gross video frame-by-frame edition than a JS injection.... cause the injection would still keep the fields aligned. Thanks.

Exactly.... now that i saw it.... it's pretty clear 😆