British Army's YouTube and Twitter accounts hacked by crypto scammers – New York Post

The official British Army Twitter and YouTube accounts were hacked by a crypto scammers. Twitter Cyber criminals hacked into the official Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army on Sunday and posted notices promoting a cryptocurrency scam. The hackers changed the Twitter account’s name to “psssd” and the profile and banner photos were changed to an image meant to depict “The Possessed,” which is a non-fungible token collection. The official Twitter account of The Possessed then warned of a “new verified SCAM account” which was meant to impersonate the NFT collection, according to CNBC. NFTs are effectively digital certificates of authenticity backed by blockchain technology that can be attached to digital art or pretty much anything else that comes in digital form, such as audio files, video clips, or animated stickers. Earlier on Sunday, hackers renamed the account “Bapesclan,” which is another NFT collection whose logo is a cartoon ape that wears clown makeup. The banner image was altered to reflect the logo. The hackers also began retweeting posts promoting NFT schemes. Over at YouTube, the British Army’s official account was renamed “Ark Invest,” which is the firm founded and headed up by famed investor Cathie Wood. A hacker compromised…
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