{"id":37865,"date":"2025-07-20T19:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37865"},"modified":"2025-07-20T19:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:02:32","slug":"crypto-crooks-take-over-stellar-blades-x-account-spread-fake-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37865","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Crooks Take Over Stellar Blade\u2019s X Account, Spread Fake Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to project insiders, the <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/stellar-blade-twitter-account-hacked-crypto-official-statement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stellar Blade X account<\/a> started posting a \u201cstellarcoin.com\u201d link Sunday morning. It wasn\u2019t part of any roadmap or community update.<\/p>\n<p>The comment section was turned off on every post, and the feed was suddenly filled with promises of massive token airdrops. Fans who clicked the 1 link risked handing over wallet keys to unknown parties. The silence under those posts spoke volumes.<\/p>\n<h2>Fake Token Hits Feeds<\/h2>\n<p>Based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/stellar-blade-director-apologizes-to-fans-after-the-games-x-account-was-hacked-to-promote-cryptocurrency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a> from the creative director, gamers were quick to spot the fake. The account used familiar game art and characters from Stellar Blade to sell a \u201cgame\u2011themed\u201d digital asset that never existed before this hack.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the team had already stirred controversy by sharing NSFW illustrations\u2014so seeing adult\u2011style fan art wasn\u2019t a red flag on its own. But shooting out those airdrop claims without prior warning gave away what was really happening.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hello, this is Hyung-Tae Kim, Director of Stellar Blade.<\/p>\n<p>The official Stellar Blade account has been compromised, and unauthorized posts containing cryptocurrency airdrops and suspicious signup promotions are currently being uploaded.<\/p>\n<p>We kindly ask everyone to refrain from\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fzd3fhxwa1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Fzd3fhxwa1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kim Hyung Tae, \uae40\ud615\ud0dc, \u30ad\u30e0\u30fb\u30d2\u30e7\u30f3\u30c6 (@jamm3rd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamm3rd\/status\/1946577824904851659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Why Comments Went Dark<\/h2>\n<p>Scammers often shut comments so no one can call out the fraud. That\u2019s exactly what happened here. The hackers explained away the move by saying it was \u201cto protect users from phishing and scam bots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, it kept players from typing warnings like \u201cDon\u2019t click that link!\u201d or \u201cThis is a hack!\u201d Anybody scrolling fast would only see slick posts about free tokens and in\u2011game exosuits.<\/p>\n<p>Community And Security Under Threat<\/p>\n<p>Based on early feedback, the Stellar Blade creative director, Hyung\u2011Tae Kim, rushed in to tell everyone to steer clear. He made it clear those posts were unauthorized and urged fans not to engage.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/x\/ueP2Le99\/\" width=\"2315\" height=\"1088\"><\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, the dev team is racing to recover the X handle. Whether they\u2019ll get it back remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/The-official-Stellar-Blade-X-account-hacked-for-multiple-days-as-crypto-scams-target-PC-and-PS5-game.1058456.0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hackers<\/a> posted claims about how many tokens had already been \u201cclaimed,\u201d though no real numbers were ever verified.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image from ComicBook.com, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to project insiders, the Stellar Blade X account started posting a \u201cstellarcoin.com\u201d link Sunday morning. It wasn\u2019t part of any roadmap or community update. The comment section was turned off on every post, and the feed was suddenly filled with promises of massive token airdrops. Fans who clicked the 1 link risked handing over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-37865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}