The British army's social accounts were hacked by crypto scammers

Over the weekend, something strange took place across the British Army’s Twitter and YouTube accounts. Both, boasting about 363,000 and 177,000 followers respectively, were briefly hacked to hawk NFT and crypto scams, as first reported by web3isgoinggreat.

The activity on Twitter was curated to resemble the feed of a relatively new NFT collection known as the Possessed project, and accordingly, the account’s avatar was replaced with a character from the collection. Using Possessed NFT imagery and re-tweeting posts that promoted the collection, which launched on June 30, the links included would redirect users to a fake website that inflated the popularity of the project by “showing the number of available NFTs appearing to dwindle.”