Hackers carried out a phishing attack through NFT artist's Twitter – Bits Media

The cybersecurity specialist warned 672 000 followers of NFT artist Mike Winkelman about the attack on their cryptocurrency wallets.

Blockchain security expert Harry.ETH posted a warning about a phishing attack via the creator's Twitter Mike Winkelman non-fungible tokens (Mike Winkelman).

Harry.ETH reported, that the page of Winkelmann known under the nickname BEEPLE was hacked. Hackers placed a phishing link on the artist’s compromised page to go to the supposedly official website, where can you register for the NFT raffle?. We're talking about the Louis The Game competition, within which fashion designer Louis Vuitton (Louis Vuitton) ordered BEEPLE to create a series of NFTs to reward the winners.

Harry.ETH called 672 000 Winkelmann subscribers do not click on the phishing link and warn other Twitter users, so that they do not become victims of scammers. According to Harry.ETH, already several users, clicked on a phishing link, suffered a cyber attack and lost a total of 35 ETH worth about $71,000. Not yet Mike Winkelman, Neither Twitter support confirmed the incident or reported any action taken.

This week, representatives of the gaming blockchain project Axie Infinity reported, that as a result of a cyber attack, attackers were able to hack the project’s account on Discord and post fake messages there. At the beginning of May, unknown hackers posted a link to a phishing site on the channel of the largest trading platform for non-fungible tokens OpenSea. Last month on the official account of the Bored Ape Yacht Club developers (BAYC) On Instagram, unknown people posted information about the distribution of tokens and stole them from deceived users 91 NFT на $2.8 million.