Hackers use New York Post’s X account to send scam DMs, users report

Malicious actors look to person infiltrated the New York Post’s X relationship successful an effort to scam crypto users connected the microblogging platform. 

Some X users from the crypto assemblage person precocious reported having received a backstage connection from the New York Post’s X relationship inviting them to diagnostic successful a podcast and to interaction them via Telegram. 

The spurious messages were archetypal discovered connected May 3 by Kerberus laminitis and CEO Alex Katz, who shared a screenshot of a connection made retired to beryllium from writer and writer Paul Sperry via the authoritative nypost account. 

“What’s absorbing astir this lawsuit is that the scammer gained unauthorized entree but didn’t station a Pump.fun code oregon wallet drainer. Instead, they’re messaging users and past directing them to Telegram,” observed cybersecurity technologist and NFT collector “Drew”.

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After sending the message, the scammer blocks users from replying to forestall the existent New York Post squad from being alerted to the compromise, helium added.  

Donny Clutterbuck from NFT Bitcoin’s ordinals level Fomojis besides reported having been contacted by the hacker, suggesting that it could beryllium a imaginable Zoom exploit from enabling audio. 

When you click to alteration audio, a pop-up gives the enactment to either cancel oregon alteration WiFi, helium said earlier adding, “I conjecture WiFi gives web entree to the scammer.” 

Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT said this compromise was akin to 1 from a fewer weeks agone erstwhile nonstop messages were sent from The Defiant’s X account.

Private connection from New York Post’s X account. Source: Alex Katz

Cointelegraph contacted the New York Post for much accusation but did not person an contiguous response. There was thing regarding the societal media compromise connected the NYP oregon Sperry’s X feeds. 

Scammers seeking victims connected Zoom 

Scammers person progressively shifted their societal engineering techniques to messaging users straight aft having established spot from erstwhile conversations, and video league level Zoom has go a hotbed of crypto scams recently. 

In April, Emblem Vault CEO Jake Gallen warned users to beryllium wary of malicious actors utilizing Zoom aft losing $100,000 successful crypto assets. Gallen was besides contacted via X to put a Zoom interrogation during which the scammer installed malware that drained his wallets. 

It is not the archetypal clip the New York Post’s verified Twitter relationship has been hijacked. In 2022, an worker hacked the account to station a bid of obscene messages designed to look similar existent headlines. 

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