Malicious actors appear to have infiltrated the New York Post’s X account in an attempt to scam crypto users on the microblogging platform. Some X users from the crypto community have recently reported having received a private message from the New York Post’s X account inviting them to feature in a podcast and to contact them via Telegram. The spurious messages were first discovered on May 3 by Kerberus founder and CEO Alex Katz, who shared a screenshot of a message made out to be from author and journalist Paul Sperry via the official nypost account. “What’s interesting about this case is that the scammer gained unauthorized access but didn’t post a Pump.fun address or wallet drainer.
There was nothing regarding the social media compromise on the NYP or Sperry’s X feeds. Scammers seeking victims on Zoom Scammers have increasingly shifted their social engineering techniques to messaging users directly after having established trust from previous conversations, and video conference platform Zoom has become a hotbed of crypto scams recently. In April, Emblem Vault CEO Jake Gallen warned users to be wary of malicious actors using Zoom after losing $100,000 in crypto assets.
Gallen was also contacted via X to arrange a Zoom interview during which the scammer installed malware that drained his wallets. It is not the first time the New York Post’s verified Twitter account has been hijacked.
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