Security News > 2024 > January > Mandiant’s account on X hacked to push cryptocurrency scam
The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency scam.
"We are aware of the incident impacting the Mandiant X account and are working to resolve the issue," a Mandiant spokesperson told BleepingComputer.
The Phantom Wallet now warns that the scammers' website is part of a phishing attack.
The threat actor behind this attack has since deleted the scam tweet and is now using it to troll Mandiant, saying, "Sorry, change password please." and "Check bookmarks when you get account back."
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