During the weekend, Hackers focused on the social media accounts of Visa and Hollywood actor Dean Norris to promote fraudulent crypto -tokens.
The incidents have expressed their concern about the increasing use of compromised high-profile accounts to perform crypto-swam.
Visa’s Facebook -Compromis
On January 26, Hackers had access to the official Facebook page of Visa and used it to promote a suspicious Solana-based crypto.
The attackers claimed that the token was part of the promise of Visa to release a crypto token. They wrote:
“Think of in 2014, we said we would have a coin called” Visa in 11 years. ” Well, it’s 2025, and here we are!
Crypto community members, however, met the announcement with skepticism and warned industrial players against it.
In the meantime, critics have ridiculed the choice of the scam of Facebook for the scam, which suggests that it was unlikely to attract seasoned crypto investors.
Nevertheless, the market capitalization of the token reportedly rose to $ 6 million before the attackers orchestrated a carpet pulled – a tactic in which malicious actors abruptly sell tokens, let the price crash and investors leave loss.
Visa does not yet have to give an official comment on the incident.
Visa is a prominent traditional financial institution that has made considerable progress in the crypto scene. It has partnerships with companies such as Coinbase, Transak, Circle and Solana to build connections between traditional finances and crypto.
Dean Norris Hack
On January 25, the X account of the American actor Dean Norris was compromised to promote a memecoin called $ Dean.
The hackers had shared a digitally modified image of the actor who held a sign with the name of the token to give credibility to the scam.
Norris, however, invalidated token in a video of January 26, stating that his platform had been hacked.
The breaking bad actor urged his followers to ignore token and clarified that he had no involvement. He expressed disappointment about the return on Reddit and repeated that he rarely uses social media platforms.
He explained:
“This is actually Dean Norris, and that very crazy crypto sh*t was a complete fake scam. I was hacked. “