In the latest OpenSea Exploit, hackers target NFT owners on Discord

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  • The marketplace of OpenSea was not directly affected
  • The fraud website was not very sophisticated and the losses seem to be minimal

According to the chat recordings, the OpenSea Discord server was compromised by fraudsters early Friday.

fake announcements about a partnership with YouTube headed members of the OpenSea community on a phishing website, trying to make NFT connoisseurs to shape a new NFT series (non-funny token) that actually does not exist. Instead, the transactions on the suspicious side The transfer of NFTS from the carriers of the users.

OpenSea confirmed the reports about their official Twitter support account.

The fraud messages refer to a suspicious website, youtubenft.art, which according to domain recordings were registered today with the Discount domestic registrar Namecheap.

Members of the OpenSea Discord Community quickly raised the alarm and moderators away from the offensive announcement channel and a compromised chat bot-but not before some users fell on the fraud.

An obvious weak point in the server WebhOOKS preservation stolen NFTS. About NFTS were transferred from 10:00 a.m. indicates that the damage was limited.

According to the OpenSea, fewer than 10 community members were affected.

other recent attempts to steal NFTs of unsuspecting users were more successful, including one last month who was aimed at NFT owners of Bored Ape Yacht Club and managed to capture the tokens worth $ 10 million

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