Be careful of the pages that you click, or if you aren’t in an NFT Discord. A new scam sees hackers crack out their NFT Discord Bots to trick users into sending fake tokens to exchange money.
Bored Ape Yacht Club, Nyoki and Shamanz have all tweeted warnings to users that their Twitter bots have been hacked and are advertising new, completely fake NFTs. If users take users to legitimate NFT sites, the link directs users’ crypto to a pair of crypto wallets that have been illegally laundering their ill-gotten gains.
Related: 5 Things I’d like much more in Games than NFTs.
Oh no, our dogs are mutating, sat a message from the Bored Ape Yacht Club discord (hell confirmed by Vice). MAKC can be staked for our $APE token. The owners of MERCO + BERCO can claim exclusive rewards just by minting and keeping our mutant dogs.
Hackers are mainly posing a fake phishing scam using the Discord Bot to disguise the fake links as legitimate new offerings. Vice confirmed that the link links users to two crypto wallets, such as Fake_Phishing5519 and Fake_Phishing5520 on blockchain explorer Etherscan, and that both wallets have experience extensive activity over the past few days as the hackers try to launder their stolen cryptocurrency.
“SAYS SAFE.” Keep the same for not giving us a hand. The message was, “The discord has a webhook” before it was cheated.” We got caught immediately but please know, we are not doing any April Fools stealth mints or airdrops etc.. Other Discords are being attacked and also now.
This isn’t the first time Discord bots have been targeted by hackers. A very similar hack happened to Justin Kan, co-founder of Twitch for his Fractal NFT project, where 373 users stole their cryptocurrency.
Hackers seem to be focusing on NFTs as the best catch-up scheme on the internet. Axie Infinity, a NFT game recently was hacked by the security breach. Hackers took a total of around 600 million dollars in crypto, but the cybersecurity analysts have also identified the crypto wallets where the stolen money has been sent.
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