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  discord@yugalabs.io“.

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

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The Instagram account of Bored Ape Yacht Club, a community of non-fungible tokens (NFT) owned by Yuga Labs, was the victim of a cyber attack that has resulted in the theft of several assets valued at 2.8 million dollars.

Yuga Labs, parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club, is investigating a “phishing” attack that left the Instagram profile of this NFT collection missing several of its pieces, as it acknowledged through its official Twitter account.

The attacker used the technique of phishing to, after hacking access to the Bored Ape Yacht Club account on Instagram, publish an ad about a fake Airdrop, a technique according to which companies send newly minted tokens for free to boost their commitment to some cause.

This promised access to an upcoming Bored Ape project by asking users to connect their MetaMask wallets. Once done, the site stole their digital assets, which were eventually transferred to the attacker’s wallet.

The account, which has already been identified, had a total of 91 NFTs, of which only some were from Bored Ape, according to specialized media The Block. Zerion, a DeFi aggregator for cryptocurrency investors, estimates the total value of the stolen NFTs to be $2.8 million based on the minimum price of the respective collections.

Source: dpa

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