{"id":9931,"date":"2024-01-18T18:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/x-accounts-of-rocket-pool-vechain-and-arkham-ceo-hacked\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:25:22","slug":"x-accounts-of-rocket-pool-vechain-and-arkham-ceo-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/x-accounts-of-rocket-pool-vechain-and-arkham-ceo-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"X Accounts of Rocket Pool, VeChain, and Arkham CEO Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have breached the X accounts of the liquid staking platform Rocket Pool, blockchain project VeChain, and the CEO of the analytics firm Arkham to promote scams.<\/p>\n<p>On VeChain&#8217;s page, the hacker posted a series of offers for a VET token giveaway. According to the announcement, users sending between 100,000 and 5 million coins to a specified address would receive double the amount in return.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-9.webp\" alt=\"X-\u0430\u043a\u043a\u0430\u0443\u043d\u0442\u044b Rocket Pool, VeChain \u0438 \u0433\u043b\u0430\u0432\u044b Arkham \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0433\u043b\u0438\u0441\u044c \u0432\u0437\u043b\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043c\" class=\"wp-image-224196\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot of the fraudulent tweet on the account. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vechainofficial\/status\/1747957982699118793\">X<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cVeChain does not conduct any giveaways! The account is compromised! Do not send any assets to this address or sign any contracts they share!\u201d warned an active community member known as Maik.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VECHAIN DOES NOT DO GIVEAWAYS<\/p>\n<p>The X account is compromised! Do NOT send any assets to that address or sign any contracts they share!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maik (@VetMaik) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VetMaik\/status\/1747961531977867622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Arkham team reported that on January 17, the account of the company&#8217;s CEO, Miguel Morel, was \u201cbriefly\u201d compromised through SIM swapping. The hacker managed to post a fraudulent message, which garnered approximately a thousand views before control of the account was restored.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday our CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealMiguelMorel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RealMiguelMorel<\/a>&#8216;s Twitter account was briefly compromised via SIM swap. A scam post was created by the hacker but was soon after taken down by Twitter. The post only received ~1K views. The SIM swap has been reversed and the hacker no longer has access.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arkham (@ArkhamIntel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArkhamIntel\/status\/1747945508440522980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Also on January 17, attention was drawn to the breach of the Rocket Pool platform&#8217;s account. The hacker posted a message claiming a critical vulnerability had been found in the protocol&#8217;s smart contracts. In the name of security, the scammer urged users to immediately transfer funds to an updated version.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?Rocket Pool is compromised. The link goes to a drainer.<\/p>\n<p>Do not migrate your assets. If you need to revoke you can revoke using your Webacy Dashboard.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aXHZaQQ2Jq\">https:\/\/t.co\/aXHZaQQ2Jq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5a1fTQv9qK\">pic.twitter.com\/5a1fTQv9qK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Webacy \u2014 Safety Never Sleeps (@mywebacy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mywebacy\/status\/1747693822174216630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cRocket Pool is compromised. The link leads to a <span data-descr=\"a program that automatically drains a connected wallet\" class=\"old_tooltip\">drainer<\/span>. Do not move your assets. If you want to revoke approval, use the Webacy dashboard,\u201d wrote the app developers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By the time of writing, other suspicious posts had appeared on the platform&#8217;s page. No comments have yet been made by the project team.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-Rocket-Pool-Rocket_Pool-X-Google-Chrome.webp\" alt=\"2-Rocket-Pool-Rocket_Pool-X-Google-Chrome\" class=\"wp-image-224198\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rocket_Pool\/status\/1747770592663617822\">X<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in January, hackers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/secs-x-account-hacked-to-announce-fake-bitcoin-etf-approval\">breached<\/a> the X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to publish a fake message about the approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the perpetrators <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coingeckos-x-accounts-hacked-to-promote-scam\">compromised<\/a> CoinGecko&#8217;s pages on the social platform, where they announced a fake GCKO token giveaway from the analytics service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have breached the X accounts of the liquid staking platform Rocket Pool, blockchain project VeChain, and the CEO of the analytics firm Arkham to promote scams. On VeChain&#8217;s page, the hacker posted a series of offers for a VET token giveaway. According to the announcement, users sending between 100,000 and 5 million coins to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,40],"class_list":["post-9931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"38","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931","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=9931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}