{"id":81401,"date":"2023-07-07T11:51:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T08:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=81401"},"modified":"2025-09-11T22:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:38:14","slug":"unknown-attackers-hacked-aptos-twitter-to-promote-a-fake-airdrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/unknown-attackers-hacked-aptos-twitter-to-promote-a-fake-airdrop\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown attackers hacked Aptos&#8217; Twitter to promote a fake airdrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 July, unknown attackers hacked Aptos&#8217;s Twitter account and posted links to a fake project site, inviting people to participate in a counterfeit APT token airdrop.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/ayK2zdoKTVhjfms-eFa9Z2G99VWtpyw5Fx1MjA-fipDJ4nVWi_IcgsQveolPUygZHaTT-bNfxWD06rfdHbr8_1eWD7im06U0AnXhqpzQQLmSbJLKmeJnn-mx32Gwajmr16k38RJT0O7UfaT2tx-XDjo\" alt=\"\u041d\u0435\u0438\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0432\u0437\u043b\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043b\u0438 Twitter Aptos \u0434\u043b\u044f \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0432\u0438\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0444\u0435\u0439\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0430\u0438\u0440\u0434\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0430\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AptosLabs\/status\/1677044666452299776\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The profile of Aptos CEO Mohammad Shaikh was also hacked, according to the developers. They promised to provide further information as the situation develops.<\/p>\n<p>The price of APT reacted to the news with a drop. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/aptos\">CoinGecko<\/a>, at the time of writing the asset was trading around $7.17, down 4.7% over 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>On 22 March an <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/unknown-hacker-hijacks-circle-executives-twitter-account-to-push-a-scam\">hacker<\/a> hacked Circle&#8217;s top executive Dante Disparte&#8217;s Twitter account to promote the scam.<\/p>\n<p>On 26 May, attackers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hackers-hijack-the-sandbox-ceos-twitter-for-a-fake-sand-airdrop\">gained control<\/a> of the Twitter account of Arthur Madrid, CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-metaverse\">metaverse<\/a> The Sandbox.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Aptos&#8217; developers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/aptos-team-rolls-out-delegated-staking-mechanism\">launched<\/a> the delegated <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-staking-and-how-to-make-money-from-it\">staking<\/a> function.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, it emerged that Aptos <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/aptos-to-award-20-million-grant-to-web3-artists\">will allocate<\/a> $20 million to Web3 artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 July, unknown attackers hacked Aptos&#8217;s Twitter account and posted links to a fake project site, inviting people to participate in a counterfeit APT token airdrop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1393,44],"class_list":["post-81401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-aptos-apt","tag-cybercrime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"62","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81403,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81401\/revisions\/81403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}