Jupiter recovers official X account after scammers promote MEOW

Solana’s aggregator aggregator recovered his X account after being diverted by cryptocurrency crooks who promoted a piece of fraudulent memes.

According to a post of February 6, reassured users that no funds were in danger. They confirmed that all customer and treasure assets remain safe in multisig portfolios. The attack was limited to Jupiter’s X account, without any other affected communication channel.

Piracy has occurred in the last hours of February 5, with several members of the community who sound the alarm on suspicious activity. In a new deleted article, Jupiter Mobile’s X account quickly warned users to click any link or purchase tokens promoted by the main compromise account.

The crooks took advantage of the opportunity to promote a theme of memes currency around Jupiter’s chat mascot with Ticker’s meow, which would have reached a market capitalization of 30 million dollars a few seconds before the token developer sold Their assets, quickly wiping all gains. All promotional messages have now been deleted.

Beanie, the pseudonym founder of the Capital Capital Company of Crypto GM Capital, critical The irony of the confidence of the protocols with billions of liquidity when they do not guarantee their social media accounts, calling it a recurring paradox in the industry.

“Traders have lost millions instantly on this Jupiter account hack. Literally in a few minutes, “he said.

The community was not too satisfied with the whole situation, calling for Jupiter for not having obtained his account correctly. Some were also frustrated that, even if Jupiter assured that the funds were safe, the losses of the scam could not be recovered.

Others praised the rapid response and transparency of the team concerning the violation, a user indicating that the incident had strengthened his confidence in the Jupiter team.

The incident may have added to some sales pressure on JuppThe native token of the platform, which had dropped more than 5% the next day.

Crypto crooks have long exploited accounts X of PROMINANT Blockchain projects,, celebritiesAnd public characters To push fraudulent tokens and phishing patterns.

Last month, Breaking Bad Star Dean Norris became the last victim After his account X was used to promote a simulated token according to his character. The crooks managed to inflate the market capitalization of the token up to $ 8.4 million at its peak before unloading their pre-acquisitions.

A few days before, the official account of the Cuba Foreign Ministry of Affairs was farm Due to what seemed to be a similar incident.