An X (formerly Twitter) account associated with American rapper Nelly was compromised, with the hacker using the profile for social engineering attacks and lure people to a crypto phishing site, on-chain investigator ZachXBT noted. The attacker also altered Nelly’s profile to pose as a security analyst for Scam Sniffer — a web-based security solution. “On-chain security analyst. Helping you catch scammers @realscamsniffer,” the bio read. However, the profile seems to have been deleted or otherwise removed, and now says the account doesn’t exist. Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., better known by his stage name Nelly, has ... (full story)