Wallet provider Trezor’s X account was hacked last night. It temporarily encouraged users to send funds to an unknown address, claiming to be promoting a new token. What do we know so far?
Trezor’s X account gets hacked
The alert was issued last night by analyst ZachXBT, who reported the hack of Trezor’s X account. Before the posts were removed, Trezor appeared to be promoting a new token:
Community alert: Trezor X/Twitter account is currently compromised pic.twitter.com/hNm2OUjEgE
– ZachXBT (@zachxbt) March 19, 2024
The person(s) behind this attack mentioned SLERF, a Solana memecoin that’s in the news at the moment, no doubt to attract attention. They also claimed that Trézor was preparing to launch a token: TRZR. To take advantage of this false “presale”, victims were invited to send SOL to an address:
In total, the address in question raised just over $8,000. The attacker also left a message taunting Trezor and inviting the company to “do something”. The posts remained online for a few minutes before being deleted.
The criminals are taking advantage of the craze surrounding pre-sales of Solana tokens at the moment. As an example, the BOOK OF MEME (BOME) has attracted $1.5 billion in capitalization in two days… Pure speculation.
Trezor’s setbacks
Trezor has made no official statement regarding the incident at the time of writing. Several commentators have noted that the firm had certainly not activated 2-step security (2FA) for its X account, which is quite a feat for a security-based company.
In recent months, Trezor has also been embroiled in a number of problems. In January, it announced that its customer database had been exposed, affecting 66,000 customers. Following this, several phishing campaigns targeted users of Trezor wallets.
With the bull run taking the Bitcoin price to record levels, and some memecoins exploding, it’s unfortunately logical that malicious people are trying to take advantage of the craze. So we need to be particularly cautious right now.
