Twelve main incidents safety incidents occurred this week, resulting in crypto losses of roughly $6.4 million.
In response to web3 safety agency CertiK, these losses had been as a result of crypto hacks and phishing assaults by Discord and X (previously referred to as Twitter). Social media has been just lately flooded with pretend airdrop messages from scammers.
A number of customers have tweeted that common Discord channels and bots have been hacked just lately to spam members with token airdrop texts. In actuality, these texts embody phishing hyperlinks, taking customers to a malicious area and draining their wallets in seconds. The airdrop scams have change into considerably common, and a few risk actors are even utilizing deepfakes or AI-generated movies to make these scams extra convincing.
Final week, TikTok was flooded with pretend ‘Elon Musk’ Bitcoin scams. The scammers included a deepfake video of Musk doing an interview with Fox Information, with the Tesla chief allegedly claiming to present away Bitcoin. Nevertheless, like most different airdrop and giveaway scams, these had been additionally redirecting customers to phishing websites.
Certik additionally reported that phishing campaigns have change into far more rampant and frequent this 12 months. Their information reveals that month-to-month losses from phishing assaults have reached 136.8 million by August, which is already double the determine of 2022.
A lot of these phishing campaigns are focused at crypto holders and merchants, driving the urgency for customers to be extra cautious with their digital belongings.