The social media account for Hyundai MEA (Center East & Africa) was taken over to distribute cryptocurrency promotions.
The Hyundai MEA account on X (previously Twitter) was briefly modified to impersonate Overworld, a role-playing sport that’s backed by the enterprise capital and incubator arm for the Binance cryptocurrency trade.
The takeover occurred earlier this week and noticed textual content and pictures modified on Hyundai MEA’s X account, with posts providing registration to assert “btc domains.” Particularly, registration was promoted to the “BRC launchpad,” the place the primary 1,000 folks to enroll would obtain $100,000.
It isn’t clear how for lengthy attackers had management of the X account, or if any direct messages had been despatched in that point.
Hyundai MEA was in a position to regain management of its X account and take away any offending posts. Netgear was additionally taken over to advertise the identical cryptocurrency registration, and follows Google’s cybersecurity operation at Mandiant briefly shedding management of its X account to cryptocurrency drainer malware operators Jan. 3. The Securities and Change Fee additionally lately misplaced management of its X account.
Overworld is so typically a goal for impersonation in related scams that it warns customers to “keep away from these impersonating our account.”
