Around 2 PM ET, a suspected group of hackers gained access to the Twitter account of the NFT project Azuki. The attacker used the access to promote a scam giveaway of virtual land. A similar attack where a group of scammers gained access to Robinhood’s social media account occurred just a few days earlier.
Azuki’s Twitter Gets Hacked to Promote a Virtual Land Scam
Seemingly trying to take advantage of Azuki’s latest project, the virtual city of Hilumia, the scammer created two posts on the collection’s Twitter page seemingly promoting a virtual land giveaway. The second post, deleted by the time of writing, got pinned to the front page for maximum visibility.
Profiles associated with the project quickly posted warnings on their personal accounts. Its Head of Community & Product Manager quickly reacted confirming that a hack occurred and warning against clicking on the link provided in the two scam posts.
A similar hack targeting the popular online broker Robinhood happened earlier this week. The attack lasted for under an hour and attempted to promote a launch of a fake Robinhood token in a series of posts. The well-known online sleuth ZachXBT discovered that the Robinhood attackers netted under $10,000, and Binance’s CZ confirmed the…
