Google’s cybersecurity firm Mandiant get back its x (twitter) account after being taken over by someone sharing links to a cryptocurrency platform.
On Wednesday afternoon around 3:30 pm EST, the scammar took the control over mandiant’s x account, renamed it as phantom and tweeted out links to a company called Phantom, which offers customers a wallet for cryptocurrency.
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At that time Mandiant’s spokeperson told media that “We are aware of the incident impacting the Mandiant X account and are working to resolve the issue,”.
As of 5:30 p.m. EST, the account has retweeted dozens of messages sent out by Phantom. The record says, representatives for Phantom did not respond to requests for comment. The company’s wallet is widely regarded and available on the app stores for both Google and Apple.
Source: vx-underground
Google security firm Mandiant resolves X account takeover issue. Now while visiting Mandiant’s x account it appears as before with Mandiant’s name and logo.
Mandiant was purchased by Google in 2022 for $5.3 billion and incorporated into Google Cloud.