Hackers stole the New York Post's X platform account and carried out fraud through private messages

Odaily Planet Daily News Hackers appear to have hacked into the New York Post's X account in an attempt to defraud cryptocurrency users on the social media platform. Recently, some X users in the crypto community reported that they received private messages from the official X account of the New York Post, inviting them to participate in the podcast recording and asking them to contact through Telegram. The fraud was first discovered by Kerberus founder and CEO Alex Katz on May 3, and the screenshots he shared showed that this was a message disguised as from writer and reporter Paul Sperry and sent through the official account of the New York Post. Drew, a cybersecurity engineer and NFT collector, observed: "What's interesting about this case is that the scammers accessed the account without authorization, but did not publish the Pump.fun address or wallet phishing link. Instead, they contacted users through private messages and then directed them to Telegram." He added that the scammers blocked users from replying after sending the message to prevent the real New York Post team from noticing that the account had been hacked. Chain detective ZachXBT said that the account hack was similar to the case a few weeks ago when The Defiant's X account was used to send private messages. In addition, the article reminds that phishers are increasingly turning their social engineering techniques to messaging users directly after previous conversations to build trust, and the video conferencing platform Zoom has recently become a hot spot for crypto scams. (Cointelegraph)