The total damage from a series of attacks on projects exceeded $ 1 million. About $ 310,000 was withdrawn from the REPLICANDY, PEPLICATOR, HEDZ and ZOGZ collections developed by the Fury team and released through the Chainsaw platform. Attackers gained access to contracts, removed the restrictions on the release of coins and mapped incorrect tokens (NFT), which they then sold, actually relying their price.
At the attacks are hackers from North Korea, hired through online platforms for freelancers, ZachXBT said.
A similar incident occurred with the FAVRR project, from where more than $ 680,000 was stolen. The technical director of the project, who allegedly played the role of a fake developer, may be involved in the attack. His profile on LinkedIn was removed shortly after the incident.
Zachxbt said that he discovered regular financial transfers by the North Korean freelancers from other crypto projects. The detective plans to publish statistics on these transactions. According to him, the scale of the threat is seriously underestimated, and even the basic check when hiring developers could prevent most of these attacks.
Earlier, TRM Labs security experts said hackers stole $ 2.1 billion in cryptocurrencies in six months, and this is a new anti -record. The damage exceeded last year and was 10% more than the previous record of 2022.
Source: Bits
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