{"id":9943,"date":"2022-04-08T21:25:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T21:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/nft\/warning-hackers-are-targeting-discord-bots-to-rob-nft-users\/"},"modified":"2022-04-08T21:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T21:25:06","slug":"warning-hackers-are-targeting-discord-bots-to-rob-nft-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/nft\/warning-hackers-are-targeting-discord-bots-to-rob-nft-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Hackers Are Targeting Discord Bots to Rob Nft Users"},"content":{"rendered":"
The month of April brought with it some bad news for the NFT community. In the early hours of April Fool\u2019s Day, the Discord servers for Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), Nyoki Club, and other popular NFT projects were hacked. The attackers took control of the Discord channel bots and used them to trick users into clicking links that promised the minting of non-existent non-fungible tokens.<\/p>\n
After realizing that their Discord servers were compromised, BAYC, Shamanz, and Nyoki Club posted on Twitter about the attack. The same day, independent blockchain detective Zachxbt<\/a> tweeted that the Discord channels of two more NFT projects, Doodle and Kaju Kings, were also used to scam users. Later, a smart contracts platform Etherscan revealed that the hackers used wallets named Fake_Phishing5519 and Fake_Phishing5520 for transactions during the attack.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n After taking control of a channel\u2019s Discord bot, the hackers started posting fake NFT minting offers using the bot. For example, on the BAYC Discord: \u201cOh no, our dogs are mutating, MAKC can be staked for our $APE token. Holders of MAYC + BAYC will be able to claim exclusive rewards just by simply minting and holding our mutant dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n The Discord posts included a link to a phishing site and mentioned that users would get exclusive rewards after minting a specific NFT from the site. NFT buyers are usually excited about any exclusive drops and offers from popular projects such as BAYC. So many clicked on the phishing links and paid ETH hoping that they would be able to mint an NFT that, in reality, never existed.<\/p>\nHow did the hackers use the discord bots to fool NFT buyers?<\/h2>\n