CoinDCX’s Twitter used for fake XRP advertising

On September 20, unknown hackers hacked the Twitter account of the Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX and posted a fake XRP advertisement with phishing links.

The attackers retweet official posts by Ripple Labs’ CEO Brad Garlinghouse to mislead the exchange’s followers. They also spread links under various tweets on cryptocurrency topics.

The main CoinDCX Twitter account currently has more than 230,000 followers.

CoinDCX’s customer support notified users of the compromised account. Work is ongoing to restore the account.

Earlier, in the run-up to The Merge, Twitter saw a wave of scams impersonating Vitalik Buterin, who allegedly promoted fraudulent Ethereum.

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