OpenSea Suffered An Exploit On Its Discord Server: Report

OpenSea suffered an exploit on its Discord server that ended up promoting a YouTube scam so let’s read more today in our latest cryptocurrency news.

The leading NFT market OpenSea suffered an exploit as per the annoucnement today, due to a vulnerability on the Discord server. OpenSea became a victim of a hack with the attackers promoting a scam on YouTube via the OpenSea discord server:

“We are currently investigating a potential vulnerability in our Discord, please do not click on any links in the Discord.”

Inside OpenSea’s discord server, the support team issued similar statements and the members in the specific channel for reporting scams on the server also shared screenshots of the specific team. The screenshot of the scam. The screenshot shows an OpenSea bot that announced YouTube is “officially partnering with OpenSea to bring their community into the NFT space.” PeckShield also reported the issue and said that OpenSea’s discord server has been exploited to promote an NFT ming. Accoridng to the screenshots, the hackers posted an announcement about the NFT mint pass offered in a partnership with YouTube.

Do not click links in our Discord.

We are continuing to investigate this situation and will share information as we have it. https://t.co/jgtHcXifer

— OpenSea Support (@opensea_support) May 6, 2022

PeckShield identified the link in the announcement channel as a phishing site and it is not clear if there are other users that fell a victim to the attack. This is not the first time hackers targeted NFT-related Discord servers. A month ago, Bored Ape Yacht CLub’s Discord channel was caught up in a phishing attack which resulted in ApeCoin crashing by more than 8%. later the same month, the BAYC official Instagram account got compromised as well with users who fell for the scam, having their NFTs stolen.

#PeckShieldAlert #phishing @opensea discord is exploited, youtubenft[.]art is the phishing site. Do *NOT* fall prey to it! https://t.co/RAcRjEfuub pic.twitter.com/rjqMpTnpjW

— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) May 6, 2022

As recently reported, The Ethereum-based governance token used in the BAYC ecosystem -Apecoin surged in value over the past week. In the buildup to today’s Otherside drop by the Bored Ape Yacht Club creators Yuga Labs, the leading NFT market OpenSea announced it is now accepting Apecoin. It came just days after APE became the biggest metaverse token by market cap. ApeCoin is up to u 1.3% over the past day and more than 33% over the past week as per the data from CoinMarketcap. Otherside is a metaverse gaming world and build a partnership with the NFT game publishers Animoca Brands, featured a number of proejct including the CryptoPunks, Meebits, Cool Cats, and Apes.