British Army was hacked by crypto scam
A group of criminals gained access to the British Army's Twitter and YouTube accounts
The British Army’s Twitter and YouTube accounts were hacked by a group of cybercriminals who have used them to promote a scam related to the cryptocurrency market.
In recent years, these types of fraudulent attacks linked to cryptocurrencies have been increasing as these assets have established themselves as a more widespread means of payment on the Internet.
In this context and on many occasions, cybercriminals target organizations and institutions that act with presumed legality as a spokesperson for their fraudulent operations.
This has been the case of the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army, as indicated by the press department of its Ministry of Defense on the social network.
From this organization, they confirmed that they are aware of the violation of their accounts by the scammers and pointed out that there is “an ongoing investigation”.
Furthermore, from this account, the malicious actors retweeted several posts that allegedly gave away these NFTs and had placed a pinned tweet at the top of the wall that included a link to a fake website to mint these types of assets.
The cybercriminals also attacked the YouTube channel of the British Army and deleted all its videos, even changing both its profile picture and its name to that of the asset manager Ark Invest.
K. Tovar
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Source: SPORT
