Crypto scammer hacked Microsoft India’s X (Twitter) account
Unknown scammers hijacked Microsoft’s X account to promote a fake pre-sale of $GME Cryptocurrency.
Established in 1990, Microsoft India is a key subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation with offices in major cities. It focuses on software development at the India Development Center and offers products like Windows, Office Suite, and Azure. The company supports digital transformation, skill development, and startups, and engages in CSR activities to enhance digital skills and community development.
On 4 June 2024, Some unknown bad actors successfully hijacked Microsoft’s India’s X account & posted tweets regarding pre-sale of Gamestop (GME) cryptocurrency.
Indeed the shared website link for GME crypto token sale was fake.
The shared phishing website by hackers was specially designed to steal assets by tricking users into connecting their cryptocurrency wallets and authorising transactions. Many bot accounts retweeted those suspicious tweet posts, spreading the scam and trapping more victims.
Notably hackers changed X account name by Roaring Kitty to easily mislead Microsoft’s 211,000 followers & attract victims for their scam trap.
On the same day, the Microsoft Indian team was able to delete those suspicious tweets & so far no information came to public domain regarding any big scam or fund theft via token pre-sale regarding this matter but it will be interesting to see what the newbie crypto investors will learn from such incidents.
Earlier this a similar kind of incident was faced by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Scammers hijacked SEC’s X account. They succeeded in hijacking with the help of Sim swap attack. With those hacking attacks, they tried to manipulate the trade price of Bitcoin (BTC) artificially.
Later the SEC officials confirmed that their X account was hijacked by some unknown actors & all the information related to Bitcoin spot ETF was fake, as all the legal proceedings were incomplete.
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