The decentralization aggregator of Solana (DEX), the aggregator Jupiter and the former Malaysian Prime Minister, both underwent hacks on their accounts X on February 5, which the crooks used to promote the memocoins of the scam .
The Jupiter Mobile account sounded the alarm in an article of February 5, warning people not to click on links or to buy tokens mentioned on the main account, saying that “the team is working to restore the ‘access”.
The co-founder of Jupiter, Siong NGO, confirmed that the official account had been compromised, but that the other programs used by exchange were protected by a multisign functionality, requiring more approval of a person to access.
“All our programs are in a 4/7 multisig. They are safe. We will resume everything, “he said.
The articles now deleted on Jupiter’s main account would have promoted a same scam with the Ticker meal, some users claiming that the part has reached a market capitalization of $ 30 million in seconds before the deletion of the positions and the robust part.
Geckoterminal shows a coin with the meadow that has only four hours and increased to a market capitalization of more than $ 8 million before losing more than 98% of its value and crashing at $ 88,000.
The venture capital company of Crypto GM Capital, the pseudonym founder, Beanie, has hypothesized: “Traders have lost millions instantly on this Jupiter account hack. Literally in a few minutes. »»
This occurs while the former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was also targeted by crooks who diverted his X account to promote a simulated token.
The founder of Slowmist, Yu Xian, said in a position of X that a story belonging to Mohamad, the oldest Prime Minister in the country, had been composed and promoted a coin with the Ticker Malaysia.
Geckoterminal data show that the token market capitalization quickly increased to 3.4 million dollars to its peak but quickly collapsed. It is now $ 153,000.
Meanwhile last month, the television star Dean Norris, better known for her role as Hank Schrader in Break the badHis X account has diverted the second time to promote a same that used its resemblance in the context of a pump and discharge scheme.
The accounts also pretended to be the American treasure and emitted Fake Bank of America, Jpmorgan and BlackRock tokens on XRPL.