The Witness Chain Discord channel was reportedly hacked immediately, making it the fifth crypto firm this month to see its Discord taken over by hackers.
Witness Chain is a blockchain-based DePIN validation mission. Hackers seem to have used its Discord to share malicious hyperlinks, with core contributor Pankaj Agarwal warning members, “please do not click on any links posted there!”
Agarwal then posted simply over an hour later that the Discord server had been recovered from the hackers and stuck. The unique warning was additionally spammed with repetitive messages that hyperlink to an obvious restoration rip-off.
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The Discord channels of blockchain platform Polygon, blockchain Avalanche, roll-up agency Zksync, and Orderly Community had been additionally hacked on August 24, 25, and 29 respectively.
Polygon’s Discord hack reportedly noticed attackers share malicious hyperlinks. As soon as customers fell sufferer, the hackers posed as safety brokers to rip-off them additional. One person claims to have misplaced $150,000 value of ethereum by way of the hyperlinks.
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