UK Army Twitter, YouTube Accounts Hacked for Cryptocurrency Scam

The accounts of the British Army in Twitter Y Youtube have been intervened and by a group of cyber criminalswho have used them to promote a scam related to the market of cryptocurrencies.

In recent years, this type of fraudulent attacks linked to cryptocurrencies have been increasing as these assets have established themselves as a more widespread means of payment on the Internet.

In this context and on many occasions, cybercriminals target organizations and institutionswho act with presumed legality as a spokesperson for their fraudulent operations.

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This has been the case of the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army, as the press department of its Ministry of Defense has advanced on the social network this Sunday.

From this organization they have confirmed that they are aware of the violation of their accounts by the scammers and have indicated that there are “an ongoing investigation”. In addition, he has assured that the Army “takes information security extremely seriously” and was working on fixing the problem.

According to The Verge, during the cyberattack, the criminals changed the photo, information and header image of their Twitter profile to associate the account with The Possessed, a collection developed by PSSSSD Labs of more than 10,000 animated non-fungible tokens (NFTs) embedded in the Ethereum blockchain.

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Also, from this account, malicious actors retweeted several posts allegedly giving away these NFTs and they had placed a pinned tweet at the top of the wall that included a link to a fake website to mint this type of asset.

Cybercriminals also attacked the YouTube channel of the British Army and deleted all its videos. In addition, they changed both her profile picture and her name to that of the asset manager Ark Invest.

On the other hand, hackers They replaced the videos published on the platform with a series of false direct starring former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

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Although these conferences took place last June during an event held by Ark Invest, the scammers faked the material and used overlay graphics including signs encouraging fraudsters to “double their money” into Bitcoin and Ethereum. Apparently, thousands of viewers followed these allegedly live broadcasts.

For her part, Twitter spokeswoman Rocío Vives has confirmed to the specialized portal The Verge that the British Army account has already been recovered, after having blocked it to prevent cybercriminals from continuing to use it fraudulently.

Likewise, the YouTube account of the British Army, which currently has 177,000 subscribers, has also been recovered and is working normally.

Source: Elcomercio

James

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