PANews reported on May 5 that according to Cointelegraph, several crypto community users recently reported that the official X platform account of the US media New York Post was suspected to have been hacked by malicious actors and used to carry out fraudulent activities.
The report shows that the intruder is using the official verified account to send private messages (DM) to cryptocurrency users on the X platform. These private messages are usually disguised as interview or podcast invitations from New York Post reporters (such as Paul Sperry), and instruct the recipient to further contact through the Telegram application. Security researchers pointed out that the scammers will immediately block users from replying after sending private messages to avoid the New York Post team from noticing any abnormalities.
As early as around May 3, users such as Kerberus CEO Alex Katz began to publicly disclose the fraudulent private messages they received. Some users speculated that the subsequent fraud process may involve inducing users to use Zoom and using its functions to attack. Blockchain researcher ZachXBT pointed out that this incident is similar to the method used by The Defiant's X account to send fraudulent private messages some time ago. So far, the New York Post has not publicly commented on the security of its X account.
