THELOGICALINDIAN - The accomplishment led to added than 150000 account of NFTs actuality baseborn from biting collectors who interacted with a awful articulation acquaint on DeeKays compromised Twitter
The acclaimed Korean NFT animator DeeKay Kwon has had their Twitter annual afraid and exploited to accomplish a phishing advance aboriginal Friday morning.
DeeKay Twitter Followers Phished for Over $150,000
A hacker has compromised the Twitter annual of the acclaimed NFT artisan DeeKay Kwon to assassinate a phishing advance on his followers.
The adventure occurred aboriginal Friday morning back a hacker compromised the Korean animator and NFT architect DeeKay Kwon’s Twitter annual to column a phishing articulation to a affected website. The column absorbed Kwon’s followers into signing affairs from a awful acute arrangement by announcement he was ablution a new, absolute NFT collection. “The LetsWalk Accumulating Airdrop is now live! Only 1,000 advantageous bodies are able to claim! Good luck!” the bulletin acquaint on DeeKay’s compromised Twitter contour with over 179,800 followers read.
The hacker included a articulation to a affected website miming DeeKay’s official frontend. The phishing armpit instructed the victims to affirmation the awful NFTs, but back the victims agreed to the claim, they aback accustomed a transaction that accepted the antagonist admission to their wallets. From there, the antagonist was able to abduct admired NFTs from the victims’ wallets.
According to on-chain data, the attacker began their annexation at about 03:43 CET this morning, ultimately pocketing about 65 NFTs from assorted victims afore Kwon could retrieve his Twitter annual and annul the awful post. The antagonist seems to accept been able to advertise amid $80,000 and $91,000 of NFTs and has back transferred the ETH gain to addition wallet. They still authority about 50 baseborn NFTs account about $52,000.
Approximately bristles hours afterwards the advance began, Kwon commented on the adventure on Twitter, adage that he got his annual aback and apologized for the event. “I got my annual back. Apologies for this animal event, and a aboveboard acknowledge you to anybody who helped to acquaint others,” he said, abacus that he was panicking for hours due to the incident. He additionally asked anyone afflicted by the phishing betray to animadversion on his column in adjustment to affix and coact on a abeyant solution.
One of the victims who commented, activity beneath the pseudonym CryptOmid.eth, said they were one of the bodies who got phished, accident four Cool Cats and three Azuki NFTs. “I clicked the assurance button alert afore I accomplished this seems shady,” the victim, who seems to be alive as an architect at Coinbase, explained in a accompanying comment.
Phishing attacks like today’s assume to be acceptable more accepted in the crypto space. Only four canicule ago, on July 11, a hacker blanket about $8.6 actor in crypto assets in a phishing attack targeting Uniswap clamminess providers. The way both attacks were conducted is conspicuously similar.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this allotment endemic ETH and several added cryptocurrencies.
