{"id":9651,"date":"2024-01-05T13:16:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T11:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/certiks-x-account-compromised-by-unknown-hackers\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T13:16:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T11:16:56","slug":"certiks-x-account-compromised-by-unknown-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/certiks-x-account-compromised-by-unknown-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"CertiK&#8217;s X Account Compromised by Unknown Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 5, experts from Revoke Cash alerted the public to the hacking of the X account of CertiK, a company focused on smart contract security audits.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CertiK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CertiK<\/a>&#8216;s X account has been compromised and is sharing a link to a fake Revoke website. Uniswap is NOT compromised. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G5xw7PQR6n\">pic.twitter.com\/G5xw7PQR6n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Revoke.cash (@RevokeCash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RevokeCash\/status\/1743195962082775098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;It appears that CertiK&#8217;s X account has been hacked and contains a link to a fake Revoke site. Uniswap is NOT compromised,&#8221; the post stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The perpetrators falsely claimed an issue with the Uniswap router contract and posted a fraudulent link to Revoke Cash to steal users&#8217; funds.<\/p>\n<p>The community urged users <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pushpendrakum\/status\/1743210053942026389\">not to click<\/a> on the links and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mudit__Gupta\/status\/1743196577668465097\">not to interact<\/a> with CertiK&#8217;s profile.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the post has been removed. The company has yet to comment on the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?WARNING TO ALL USERS: CERTIK X ACCOUNT COMPROMISED?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reports are circulating like wildfire that security firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CertiK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Certik<\/a>, has had its X\/Twitter account compromised.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The account, which currently boasts more than 340K followers, reportedly posted a malicious and fake\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ni3STUSVnP\">https:\/\/t.co\/ni3STUSVnP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8LviXMxLuH\">pic.twitter.com\/8LviXMxLuH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BSCN (@BSCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BSCNews\/status\/1743208816768958712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Previously, Polychain Capital, a firm focused on the cryptocurrency industry, reported that the X account of its founder and CEO, Olaf Carlson-Wee, had been compromised.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Important Notice: Olaf\u2019s personal twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zxocw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@zxocw<\/a>) has been compromised. Please do not engage with this handle until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Polychain (@polychain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/polychain\/status\/1743019573295894937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>An unknown party posted phishing links and promoted an airdrop of the $PCHAIN token. At the time of writing, the post has been removed, with the latest entry on the profile dated December 23, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, hackers took control of the X account of online broker Robinhood to promote a fraudulent RBH token in the BNB Chain.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2023, unknown individuals hacked the accounts of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, the Aptos blockchain, and Uniswap creator Hayden Adams.<\/p>\n<p>According to Immunefi, the crypto industry suffered $1.8 billion in losses from hacking and fraud over the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 5, experts from Revoke Cash alerted the public to the hacking of the X account of CertiK, a company focused on smart contract security audits. It looks like @CertiK&#8216;s X account has been compromised and is sharing a link to a fake Revoke website. Uniswap is NOT compromised. pic.twitter.com\/G5xw7PQR6n \u2014 Revoke.cash (@RevokeCash) January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9650,"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":[1204,44],"class_list":["post-9651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-certik","tag-cybercrime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651","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=9651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}