Unknown people hacked the page of actor Tom Holland, who played the Marvel comic book character Spider-Man. Having gained access to an account on the social network X (formerly Twitter), they began distributing phishing links, reports U.Today.
In particular, a post appeared on Holland’s page allegedly announcing the actor’s partnership with the Binance crypto exchange and the launch of the Spiderverse collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
In addition, the compromised account contained a link to a website offering to purchase a fake SPIDER token. At the time of publication of the news, the post was deleted. Presumably, Tom Holland managed to regain access to the page in X.
A post on Tom Holland's X page encouraging you to follow a phishing link. Source: U.Today.
Hacking accounts in X in order to distribute phishing links is one of the popular fraud schemes in the crypto industry. Previously, hackers compromised MicroStrategy’s account and posted an announcement of a fake airdrop.
A similar incident occurred in February 2024, when unknown people hacked the Notcoin project account in X. They published a link that led to a fake website.
In addition, in January it became known that the pages of Arkham and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were hacked. The attackers probably used a SIM card swap method.
Source: Cryptocurrency
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