Gate.io faces phishing hack on Twitter account
Over a million users of the cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io were at risk of losing money due to an ongoing scam involving a fake giveaway of 500,000 Tether (USDT)by the hackers on the exchange’s official Twitter account. Unknown hackers took control of Gate.io’s Twitter account and changed the URL of the website from Gate.io to gte.com […]
FTX CEO reportedly had plans to acquire Twitter
According to a Business Insider story, cryptocurrency entrepreneur and CEO of FTX exchange Sam Bankman-Fried was interested in acquiring Twitter in March 2022. Will MacAskill, a philosopher, and FTX CEO’s -close advisor texted Elon Musk in March, suggesting that they may work together to acquire the social network: Journalists point to the private texts that […]
Twitter restores suspended NFTs accounts on Solana network
After previously suspending nine NFT accounts on the Solana blockchain without any official explanation, Twitter has restored the accounts back to its platform. Nine accounts linked to the promotion of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, on the Solana (SOL) network had their access to Twitter restricted early on Wednesday. The change was made just in time […]
Elon Musk Maintains Position On Terminating Twitter Acquisition
A filing says that the letter from Elon Musk follows one that was sent in July in case the first one is found to be invalid. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla (TSLA), sent a second letter to cancel his $44 billion […]
Analyst outlines 8 crypto scams on Twitter
Cybersecurity analyst Serpent in a 19-part thread outlined the sophisticated strategies scammers use for the most dastardly crypto scams and s well as non-fungible tokens’ (NFT) currently active on Twitter. The analyst is the creator of Sentinel, artificial intelligence and community-powered crypto scams mitigation solution, and has 253,400 followers on Twitter. Serpent described how scammers […]