The NFT craze seems to not only stop at the real value controversy, but now many netizens have more reasons to oppose: NFT is a lucrative bait that hackers use to scam on the internet. The story that happened with today’s most expensive NFT collection, the Moonbirds, best illustrates these fears.
Those interested in NFT are familiar with the Moonbirds, an NFT collection of 10,000 NFTs of owls in pixel form. Although it was just launched on April 16, this NFT quickly sold out in just a few hours, earning more than 6000 billion dong ($281 million). Besides NFT collections such as Azuki, Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks, Moonbirds is considered the most successful NFT set in the first quarter of 2022.
The reason this collection is getting much attention is thanks to the Proof Collective group, a team of famous NFT artists, especially Mike Winkelmann or Beeple, who used to sell collages as NFTs for more than 1500 billion. dong ($69 million). Besides, Moonbirds are also sold at random, depending on the player’s luck. Although soon after, Proof Collective was accused of using bots to manipulate prices as well as trying to use family members to speculate on rare NFTs, but the collection still created a fever in the world NFT village and was taken advantage of by hackers. use.
According to Fortune, in recent times, hackers have used Moonbirds as bait to take over Twitter accounts of many people, including accounts with authentic green ticks. Their scams often take place in a certain sequence. Initially, the hackers will replace the avatar on the green-checked accounts with the image of NFT Moonbirds, then post an article calling for followers to participate in receiving NFT in the form of a lottery. Of course, they also tagged a bunch of people in the victim’s friends list.
In these articles, hackers will attach links to websites that impersonate or contain malicious code. As long as the victim clicks on the link or connects the e-wallet to the website, they will lose all their cryptocurrency or be blackmailed on the device by malware.
The most famous victim of this scam is Levi Sanders, son of US Senator Bernie Sanders. After taking over Levi’s account, the hacker changed the name of this person’s personal account to Moonbirds, changed his avatar and continued to post calls to participate in the NFT winning lottery. It took Levi Sanders hours to regain control of his account.
This scam spread so quickly that on April 19, the warning hashtag #hack_moonbirds was in the top trending topic. The Moonbird project development team, Proof Collective, must also warn users about this scam targeting accounts with a lot of followers or green ticks. On the official Twitter account, the Moonbirds said their project does not have any Instagram or Discord channels.
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