Bored Ape loses 200 ETH in a new cyber attack in two months
The company that creates the NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club is the victim of a second cyberattack and 200 ETH is stolen, the attack occurred on Discord servers
The companu Yuga Labs, creator of the non-fungible tokens (NFT) Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and the OtherSide metaverse, was the victim of a new cyberattack, the second in two months, which stole several collectibles valued at 200 ethers (ETH), equivalent to about 350,000 dollars.
The hack was carried out through the BAYC servers on Discord and was detected by the Onchain analyst, OKHotshot, who made the notification on the social network Twitter. In the first tweet, he noted: “BAYC and OtherSide Discord accounts were compromised”.
The cyberattackers sent a publication accompanied by a phishing, which consists of the online impersonation of an authority, company, website or even someone. In this case, it led to a fake website where the theft of NFTs occurs.
In their message the attackers said: “We are launching another exclusive giveaway for all BAYC, MAYC and Otherside NFT owners. Since Otherside was one of our biggest successes, both for our team and for all our holders who currently own one, we decided to throw one last gift to the holders as a token of our appreciation.”
Second attack in two months
The company acknowledged the cyberattack on its servers and indicated that the work team detected the hack and quickly addressed it, but “about 200 ETH in NFT were affected, and I invite its users to report any alteration via email to [email protected]“.
The company also admitted that it is the second time, in two months, that it has been the victim of a cyberattack. The first occurred last April when BAYC’s official Instagram account was hacked, where they posted a malicious link and 91 digital pieces were lost.
This second attack was similar to the one in April, when they also sent a phishing, which led to a fake BAYC website, where an airdrop was promised and users were asked to sign a transaction after which all their assets were transferred to a wallet controlled by the attacker.”
M. Rodríguez
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Source: noticiasdebariloche.com
