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Hackers hijacked the Delhi Capitals’ X account, using the popular cricket franchise’s social media presence to push a scam Solana-based token. 
Delhi Capitals, a cricket franchise team that competes in the popular Indian Premier League, fell victim to an X breach with hackers taking control of the account to advertise a Solana-based token with the ticker HACKER to the team’s over 2.6 million followers. 
In the now-deleted <a href="https://x.com/HarshadSarode13/status/1833486539495821665" target="_blank">posts</a>, the bad actors took responsibility for the attack while announcing their intentions to “make profits” by targeting other X accounts in a bid to inflate the price of the HACKER token that was created a little over a day ago according to DEX screener <a href="https://dexscreener.com/solana/3kajrqx2um4ugz4m2wqbxn6dsg6ncr3ctcavf1xstf26" target="_blank">data</a>. 
“We hack accounts on each account the token address will be posted and the token will pump,” the attackers wrote. 
The attacker’s strategy is common in these sorts of attacks, where <a href="https://crypto.news/uk-hacker-linked-to-compromised-celebrity-x-accounts-used-to-promote-530m-meme-coin-scam-report/" target="_blank">fraudsters exploit</a> the large follower base of high-profile X accounts to promote crypto tokens. They artificially pump the token’s price and then sell off their pre-acquired holdings shortly after, leaving unsuspecting investors that rush in for a quick profit at a loss. 
The culprits continued to make a series of similar posts, publicizing the scam token’s contract address, adding “search $HACKER to see our strength.” Shortly after, the Delhi Capitals management regained control of their account. 
Meanwhile, searching X for the term “$HACKER” led to <a href="https://x.com/btcbears/status/1830964273474076886" target="_blank">posts</a> from another hacked account, sharing screenshots of similar attacks on the South Korean esports team T1 and other X accounts, all featuring the same message but with a different contract address. 
However, the attacker’s efforts appeared to fall flat, with the HACKER token attracting little attention. At the time of writing, the scam token had a market cap of just $4,300 and only 46 transactions, most of which seemed to have been executed by the creators themselves shortly after the token’s launch. 
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="hackers-keep-finding-ways-around-x-s-security-measures">Hackers keep finding ways around X’s security measures</h2> 
Nevertheless, these attacks appear to be part of a growing trend where scammers target <a href="https://crypto.news/metallicas-x-account-hacked-to-promote-solana-token-sahil-arora-blamed/" target="_blank">high-profile X accounts</a> to promote deceitful crypto tokens—raising concerns about the platform’s security. The social media giant has yet to address this issue. 
On Sep. 4, the X accounts of Lara and Tiffany Trump were <a href="https://crypto.news/trump-family-x-accounts-hacked-to-push-crypto-scam/" target="_blank">hijacked</a> simultaneously to mislead the public into buying a fake token themed around former president Donald Trump’s new decentralized finance project World Liberty Financial. 
Just days earlier, French soccer star Kylian Mbappé <a href="https://crypto.news/crypto-fraud-mbappes-x-account-hacked-trader-loses-over-1m/" target="_blank">fell victim</a> to a similar breach and the attackers executed a pump-and-dump scheme using the MBAPPE token. 
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Crypto scammers target Indian Premier League team to promote Solana token

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