The official Dota 2 YouTube channel of gaming large Valve was not too long ago compromised by scammers as a way to promote a bogus Solana-based meme cryptocurrency referred to as “dota2coin.”
A screenshot shared by common VR fanatic and {hardware} analyst Brad Lynch reveals a livestream saying the official launch of the fraudulent token on the Pump.enjoyable meme coin manufacturing unit.
The hack has additionally been broadly mentioned on Reddit, with a warning concerning the rip-off tokens turning into one of many high posts over the previous 24 hours.
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“This man is spreading lies so he can maintain the coin all for himself!” one consumer quipped in response to the warning.
Coordinated assault?
Notably, the official YouTube channels of ESL (Digital Sports activities League) and the BLAST Premier circuit (a event system targeted on CS:GO) additionally received hacked across the similar time.
Some customers suspect that this was a coordinated and slightly subtle assault.
Notably, this coincided with the video-hosting large experiencing a large outage earlier at this time.