The pirates took control of the social media social account of the Saudi conference on X, using it to usurp the identity of the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and promote fraudulent cryptocurrencies.
In a series of messages now deleted, the crooks have used the name and image of the crown prince, which serves as a Saudi Prime Minister, to promote an “official from Saudi Arabia” as well as a “Falcon same” . The positions were accompanied by contract addresses to identify the tokens.
It should be obvious. But in case this is not the case: the SAUDILAWCONF Twitter was hacked and reused, as their Insta confirmed.
There is no official Saudi currency. pic.twitter.com/l8jdfiziuu
– Barry (@badlydrawnbarry) February 17, 2025
The conference, a major legal event in the country, confirmed on LinkedIn that the official account X had been compromised and advised users that any “content published via the account does not represent our opinions or our official positions in any way that this either”.
“We confirm that we are urgently working to regain control of the account and to decline all the responsibility of all unauthorized messages carried out during this period. We also apologize to our subscribers for any disadvantage that it can cause and urge everyone to be cautious and to refrain from engaging with any suspicious content published in the account until further notice, ” writes the Saudi law conference.
The incident occurs in the middle of the controversy surrounding Argentinian president Javier Milei on a position promoting a same called Balance and its subsequent withdrawal.
Warning: the declarations of the Saudi law conference of this article were translated with the use of artificial intelligence.
