Scammers pwn verified Fox Twitter account to scam cryptocurrency – Naked Security

Scammers have long been exploiting Twitter to steal digital currencies from naïve users, but this month one attacker pulled off a rare coup by compromising a verified Twitter account.

Those at risk of impersonation, like celebrities and other public figures, can get their accounts verified by Twitter to show that they are really the people in control of the account. In July, someone managed to gain access to a verified Twitter account for a now-defunct Fox show called Almost Human and use it to impersonate cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun, founder of the TRON decentralized blockchain application platform.

Almost Human was a science fiction drama that ran for just three and a half months between mid-November 2013 and March 2014. Fox cancelled it after the first season. However, the network appears to have lost control of the Twitter account that had been used for the show. Scammers appear to have compromised the account and updated its display name to Sun’s, whose…