A Yuga Labscreator of the non-fungible token (NFT) Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), confirmed this Monday (6) that he was the target of yet another cyber attack on your Discord server. The attacker stole 200 ether (ETH) in digital assets, equivalent to more than BRL 1.7 million at the price of the day. The cyberattack happened after the project’s community manager, Boris Vagner, had his Discord account hacked. From there, the attacker used the profile to distribute links de phishing on the official channels of BAYC and Otherside, monkey NFT metaverse project. Users of the groups on the platform were deceived by the fake messages, which promised gifts and other advantages. Details about the hack were first reported by the Twitter account @NFTherder on Saturday.The company urged users to be on the lookout for phishing attacks.Source: Shutterstock As per the investigation conducted by the profile, cryptocurrencies and NFTs stolen in BAYC server attack on Discord were distributed among four crypto wallets. The expert was able to track down 145 stolen ETH, but the company later confirmed that the amount was higher.
Recent invasion history
The confirmed attack on Yuga Labs is now the third suffered by the company in recent weeks. In one of them, which took place on April 1, Mutant Ape Yacht Club nº 8662 was stolen through phishing, also publicized on the project’s Discord channel, resulting in a loss of US$ 2.8 million (R$ 13.4 million). .The second was recorded on April 25, after the company’s Instagram and Discord accounts posted a fake Otherside link. It is also worth noting that the actor Seth Green lost its Bored Ape last week when it was tricked into a similar scam. The company said it was investigating the action and urged customers to be wary of freebie offers and other benefits.
