Co-founder of Yuga Labs warned users about an impending hacker attack – Bits Media

One of the creators of the NFT project Yuga Labs under the pseudonym GordonGoner reported, that criminals can carry out organized hacking of project user accounts on social networks.

Yuga Labs team member posted
warning to non-fungible token collectors on Twitter, with reference to a certain informant. Twitter technical support began monitoring suspicious activity on user accounts shortly after the warning.. GordonGoner warned investors just in case, that the company is not going to suddenly release NFTs.

This popular method is often used by criminals to lure victims into fake auctions.. Claiming on behalf of companies the unexpected minting of collectible tokens, they invite users to a phishing site and thus obtain user data to hack their wallet.

The popularity of NFTs from Yuga Labs has led to an increase in fraud. 5 June, attackers managed to infiltrate the Yuga Labs BAYC and OtherSide Discord groups and steal more than 200 ethers. An investigation by a blockchain security expert under the nickname OKHotshot showed, that the attack was carried out through the hacking of the Discord account of Yuga Labs PR and social media manager Boris Vagner (Boris Wagner).

L2 scaling solution Optimism recently lost 20 million OP tokens after, How I became a victim of an exploit in a market maker's smart contract. From the project pool was sold 1 million tokens worth about $1.3 million, but 1 million tokens worth about $730 000 –to the personal address of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Rest 18 million tokens remain dormant and can be sold or used to manage the project.