NFTs are worse than we thought.
There has been a marked increase in the number of campaigns geared towards the NFT community, where enthusiasts seem to be the perfect marks.
It sounds great in theory, but it leaves investors with little recourse. That has become a bigger deal in recent years, with low-information investors being impressed by the hype over Bored Apes and Dogecoin-funded Lamborghinis, putting their hard-earned savings into digital goods that, if stolen, they have no way of recovering.
The hackers are taking notice. The bogus job offers were published by hackers.
The firm found that artists were cold-contacted by users who claimed to be from a real line of NFTs.
Hi! We appreciate your work, per Cyberpunk Ape Executives. You will be able to create amazing and adorable NFT characters. Your characters will be important to the NFT universe.
Along with the scam job ads, there was a link to a download page that gave users a sneakily-hidden.EXE file that stole information from users.
Phishing attempts are geared towards the less cybersecurity-inclined, and with NFTs and the other accoutrements of the Web3 protocols attracting more and more new users, the base.
Users who fell victim to the scam began to receive similar recruitment messages from their accounts. This type of attack is not uncommon, but it is interesting to see the scam artists use NFTs as an attack point.
The potential for attacks on businesses and organizations is high if victims access the malicious files on their work computers.
The Ape Executives have a job offer you can refuse.
If you can help it, don't open a random file full of random NFTs. For the love of god, set your operating system so that you don't accidentally run an executable that is an image file.
Executives target artists with a job offer.
A woman was scammed for $8 million in cryptocurrencies.
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