Hackers use New York Post’s X account to send scam DMs, users report

Malicious actors appear to have infiltrated the New York Post’s X account in an attempt to scam crypto users on the microblogging platform.  Some X users from the crypto community have recently reported having received a private message from the New York Post’s X account inviting them to feature in a podcast and to contact them via Telegram.  The spurious messages were first discovered on May 3 by Kerberus founder and CEO Alex Katz, who shared a screenshot of a message made out to be from author and journalist Paul Sperry via the official nypost account.  “What’s interesting about this case is that the scammer gained unauthorized access but didn’t post a Pump source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/hackers-accessed-new-york-post-x-account-scam-crypto-twitter?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound