"British Army Social Media Accounts Hijacked"

It was recently discovered that a malicious third party compromised the British army’s Twitter and YouTube accounts and used them to direct visitors to cryptocurrency scams.  After discovering the accounts were hacked, it took 4 hours to regain control of them.  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) stated that hackers posted multiple promotional links to various crypto and NFT scams, including a likely phishing link to a fake mint of The Possessed NFT collection.  The MoD also noted that on YouTube, the hackers rebranded the entire account to resemble investment firm Ark Invest, posting live stream videos featuring celebs like Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey.  The videos were used to promote QR codes for viewers to send their crypto to, claiming that doing so would result in them receiving double their investment back.  Separate research from last November found that YouTube Live scams, including fake crypto giveaways, made fraudsters almost $9m in October alone.

Infosecurity reports: "British Army Social Media Accounts Hijacked"