The recent incident represents a more sophisticated attack that deviates from the classic scam of promoting fake tokens on social media.
Kaito AI, an artificial intelligence-powered platform that aggregates crypto data to provide market analysis for users, and its founder Yu Hu, were the victims of an X social media hack on March 15.
In several now-deleted posts, hackers claimed that the Kaito wallets were compromised and advised users that their funds were not safe.
According to DeFi Warhol, the hackers opened up a short position on KAITO tokens before posting the messages in the hopes that users would sell or pull their funds, which would have crashed the price and created profits for the threat actors.
