A well-known investment company had a close call on a Wednesday. For a short time, the company's X account, which has a large following of 851, 000 people, was taken over by scammers. The hackers posted a fake message about a crypto "airdrop, " tricking many into thinking they could get free crypto. They even claimed that $5 million had already been given away. The s...
Imagine waking up to a sudden flood of weird crypto ads on your favorite gaming news site's social media. That's what happened to Kotaku's followers on X. The X page looked like a hacker had thrown a party of cryptocurrency promotions, replacing all the usual posts about gaming news. At first glance, everything screamed "hack. " All the recent posts...
UFC fans were in for a surprise when they saw a mysterious post on the official UFC Instagram account. It appeared that someone had taken control of the account for a while, promoting a new cryptocurrency. The post had all the makings of an official announcement, complete with the UFC logo and a wallet address for the cryptocurrency. The caption even had a catchy phr...
The Trump family's foray into the world of cryptocurrency took a dramatic turn when social media profiles belonging to Lara and Tiffany Trump were hacked to promote a fake crypto project. The scam, which was quickly shut down by X, aimed to trick users into buying tokens for the World Liberty Financial project. The deleted post claimed that the initiative aimed to "t...