Being wary of journalists can be a good thing at times. Take the case of Orbiter Finance. A claimed journalist from a crypto news website contacted one of its Discord moderators last month and requested that they complete out a form. The moderator had no idea that this uncomplicated action would give someone else control of their Discord server.
Once inside, the offender froze other admins’ access to the system and restricted community members’ ability to submit messages. Everyone who clicked on the phoney airdrop announcement was taken to a phishing website intended to steal their NFTs. The plan was successful. They quickly took NFTs and tokens worth $1,000,000 while the squad was only onlookers.
“We were so concerned,” Gwen, a business development manager at Orbiter Finance, said in an interview. “If we cause any damage to [our community members], we will just lose their trust.”
The Orbiter attack is only one of many recent examples involving NFT drainers and compromised Discord servers or Twitter accounts. Data obtained by NFT researcher and security specialist OKHotshot shows that at least 900
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