Alex Coin 
The team of OpenSea warned users about an alleged Bot company that disseminated links through its group of Discord, which would have a link directing to a site where they would seek to extract the victims’ data for unknown purposes.
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Recently published reports by the OpenSea warn about a possible attack against the channel of the Discord discord is a web-based communication tool or application primarily built to enable communication between gamers. of its user community, where alleged members of the team are promoting links and misleading offers to defraud and/or take control of the users. NFT non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are cryptocurrencies that do not possess the property of fungibility. of the users.
Attack on the group of Discord de OpenSea
This was indicated by the team of OpenSea in a message posted through its official support the opposite of Resistance, it is a threshold that crypto’s price doesn’t fall below. account an account is essentially a whose purpose is to track the financial activities of a specific asset/ via Twitter, where they indicated the following:
“Do not click on the links on our Discord. We are continuing to investigate the situation and will provide more information when we have it.”
Do not click links in our Discord.
We are continuing to investigate this situation and will share information as we have it. https://t.co/jgtHcXifer
— OpenSea Support (@opensea_support) May 6, 2022
This message linked directly to a previously published message in which they referred to a vulnerability present on their Discord, acknowledging that the links posted in the group were not issued by members of the team, but by attackers who took advantage of the breach to insert links with harmful content.
“YouTube is officially partnering with [OpenSea] to bring their community into the NFT space.”
According to information published by the analysis firm PeckShield, the links distributed through the Discord de OpenSea The attackers are redirected to a phishing when a scammer pretends to be a trusted institution or person to trick people into revealing sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, passwords, banking details, etc., often through a malware link disguised as legitimate. site, that is, a page through which they would seek to capture data from the victims to access their accounts on other services. At the moment it is not clear if anyone has been affected by this attack.
Similar to other attacks
While phishing campaigns are fairly common, it once again raises the alarm about attackers looking to exploit security the term securities refers to a fungible and tradable financial instrument that carries a type of monetary value. holes in services such as Discord, especially on channels specially dedicated to certain communities.
On the other hand, it also highlights the fact that attackers are becoming more and more interested in the NFT The main reason for this is that they are considered valuable assets that could be traded for large amounts of capital capital is most commonly defined as the large sum of money you would use to invest. on very select sites and platforms, where specific communities would be willing to pay large sums of crypto to get their hands on such items.
Let’s keep in mind that last month, the official channel at Discord deBored Ape Yacht Club was also a victim of this type of attack, which resulted in robberies that ended up affecting the quotation of ApeCoin in the main markets, token a digital unit designed with utility in mind, providing access and use of a larger crypto economic system. associated to that collection of NFT launched by Yuga Labs.
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Source: Decrypt
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