Lag Gaye 😭 - Azuki Hacked 💻

GM Guys and Gals,

Crypto and Web3 Space is famous for cyber-attacks and hacks. It’s just kinda normal in the space now. Azuki’s Twitter Account was hacked and the attacker drained over $75Ok in just 30 Mins 🤯 [Here’s what you need to know about it 👇🏻]

Loot Gaye 😂

An abrupt hostile takeover of the gold-checked Azuki Twitter account led to some users falling for yet another wallet-draining scam on Friday.

In less than 30 minutes, over $750,000 worth of USDC, 11 NFTs, and over 3.9 ETH were stolen through malicious links feigning as a “land mint” for the popular Azuki NFT project. The mint was fake, however, and the link instead sent unsuspecting users to a “drainer” contract that duped them into signing a transaction that swiped assets from their wallets.

A single user seemingly inadvertently sent over $750,000 worth of stablecoin USDC to the attacker’s wallet, per Etherscan data provided by Web3 security firm WalletGuard. 

Many NFT traders quickly realized that the suspicious Azuki tweets, which referred to the fake “surprise mint,” meant the account had been compromised. Within the hour, the official Azuki Twitter account appeared to have been removed from Twitter search results, and the malicious tweets were deleted.

Azuki Community Manager Rose quickly confirmed that the Azuki account had been compromised.

MetaMask Security Research Harry Denley noticed the scam almost immediately and said that MetaMask has since blocked the malicious domain.

The Phantom wallet team has also marked the malicious domains as unsafe, alerting users who attempt to connect their Phantom wallets to the sites.

That’s it for the day - Be Safe from these scams. Web3Shala 👋

To the Moon 🚀