{"id":22107,"date":"2025-03-16T12:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T10:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-spread-false-alerts-in-kaitos-name\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T12:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T10:08:18","slug":"hackers-spread-false-alerts-in-kaitos-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-spread-false-alerts-in-kaitos-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Spread False Alerts in Kaito&#8217;s Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown individuals breached the X accounts of the Kaito platform and its founder Yu Hu to disseminate false messages about issues with the project&#8217;s token.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This account and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Punk9277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Punk9277<\/a> were just compromised.<\/p>\n<p>The KAITO wallets were NOT and are NOT compromised.<\/p>\n<p>We now have regained access to the twitter accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Please bare with us as we investigate how this happened.<\/p>\n<p>We had high standard security measures in place to prevent it -\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaito AI ? (@KaitoAI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaitoAI\/status\/1901002249159266611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The hackers issued a fake warning about &#8220;unusual activity&#8221; in several wallets associated with Kaito and &#8220;compromise of part of the token supply.&#8221; This likely referred to KAITO, the project&#8217;s native asset for rewarding participants.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcnISvliBkhWhM9lYAPPuyBAgf_U2ruo4w0lTtCTokT7JoAgcGuLFFBb2cUK1T-u6XSa9NBydTc7aw-YcGcinHBB94lo3H5q0LUhicwvJWJksM1htEZGOxhK1gjBnH26SwZlBYpuA?key=dpmTaMpGWaohT2Sk1hJHzMHb\" alt=\"Hackers Spread False Alerts in Kaito's Name\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot of the fake warning posted by the hacked account. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/346493\/x-accounts-of-kaito-and-founder-yu-hu-hacked-to-spread-unfounded-reports-of-token-supply-issues\">The Block<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Simultaneously, a message was posted from Hu&#8217;s account: &#8220;Funds are not safe right now. Please be cautious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hackers&#8217; actions led to a 10% drop in KAITO, but the price recovered within two hours.<\/p>\n<p>The account holders regained access and removed the problematic messages. The Kaito team stated that the funds were never at risk and the wallets remain secure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">nothing related to KAITO was compromised, no wallets or supply<\/p>\n<p>my X account and the Kaito one were both compromised \u2014 with the hacker then posting false tweets<\/p>\n<p>once I was made aware, I checked the accounts and saw I was still logged into both so deleted the tweets, and\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yu Hu ? (@Punk9277) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Punk9277\/status\/1901009231727521979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hu also assured the safety of the project&#8217;s assets and noted that both X accounts were protected by &#8220;high-level security measures,&#8221; including a hardware-based two-factor authentication system. He suggested that this attack resembles incidents with other projects like Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of Kaito reported that the team is in discussions with individuals familiar with such cases and welcomes assistance from experts.<\/p>\n<p>In February, following the start of the airdrop, the KAITO rate <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kaito-token-surges-50-following-airdrop-launch\">increased by 50%<\/a>, despite active sell-offs by major holders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown individuals breached the X accounts of the Kaito platform and its founder Yu Hu to disseminate false messages about issues with the project&#8217;s token. This account and @Punk9277 were just compromised. The KAITO wallets were NOT and are NOT compromised. We now have regained access to the twitter accounts. Please bare with us as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1111,465,40],"class_list":["post-22107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybersecurity","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"39","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}