My X Account Was Hijacked to Sell a Fake WIRED Memecoin. Then Came the Backlash

My X Account Was Hijacked to Sell a Fake WIRED Memecoin. Then Came the Backlash

Earlier this year, a hacker used my X account to hawk a fraudulent WIRED-branded crypto coin. After they pulled the rug on investors, I faced the aftermath.

Curve Finance warns its DNS has been hijacked again

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance has warned that a hacker has again hijacked its domain name system (DNS), sending users to a malicious website.  In the second attack on its infrastructure in a week, the “curve.fi DNS might be hijacked. Don’t interact!” the team said in a May 12 warning to X.In a follow-up post to a user asking whether it was a hack or a hijack, the Curve Team said the website “Points to the wrong IP” when use…

My X Account Was Hijacked to Promote a Faux WIRED Memecoin. Then Got here the Backlash

In idea, the extra distinguished the X account, the better the potential return on the pump-and-dump, as a result of many extra persons are probably to purchase into the coin the scammer promotes. I tweet occasionally—principally hyperlinks to my articles—and have fewer than 2,800 followers, making me considerably of an unlikely goal. However I used to be invaluable to the scammer for the chance that I’m thought of a trusted authority in my capa…