“Hackers hacked the X account of Animoca Brands head Yat Siu to promote a fake token. ‼️🚨 Unfortunately @ysiu social media account has been compromised. There is no official token or NFT launch from Animoca Brands. The token launch on Solana as claimed in a post was made by the hacker. Please DO NOT engage with the account and […]”, — write: businessua.com.ua
Hackers hacked the X account of Animoca Brands head Yat Siu to promote a fake token.
‼️🚨 Unfortunately @ysiu social media account has been compromised. There is no official token or NFT launch from Animoca Brands. The token launch on Solana as claimed in a post was made by the hacker. Please DO NOT engage with the account and stay vigilant.
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— Animoca Brands (@animocabrands) December 26, 2024
The incident continued a series of attacks that affected the profiles of the streaming platform Kick, the AI assistant Cursor, the co-founder of World (formerly Worldcoin) Alex Blania, the meme coin Brett and the SocialFi application The Arena.
Unknown people sent a letter allegedly from the X support service, urging users to follow a phishing link to reset access. Fake tokens were advertised from hacked pages.
First, on-chain detective ZachXBT reported the compromise of Siu’s profile. According to him, on behalf of the co-founder of Animoca, a token launched by the same address as in some previous incidents was advertised.
At the time of writing, the posts posted by the attackers on behalf of Siu have already been deleted.
It will be recalled that in November, hackers promoted a fraudulent token from the hacked X-account of rapper Wiz Khalifa with 35.7 million followers.
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