OpenSea Discord Hit By Phishing Attack, Causing Many Victims?

OpenSea's Discord account was hit by a phishing attack. (OpenSea)

JAKARTA – The popular NFT marketplace, OpenSea was forced to experience a phishing attack. This time it's not its NFT trading platform but OpenSea's main Discord channel that has become a target for cybercriminals.

PeckShield as the Blockchain security company revealed the incident following the sharing of complaints from the NFT community which were uploaded to Twitter posts. OpenSea itself immediately responded to the problem by starting an investigation.

According to CryptoPotato, after several tweets regarding the incident, PeckShield confirmed that the Discord channel of the NFT marketplace had been exploited.

The scammers used phishing links to YouTube NFT and started promoting fake NFT banknotes. Like the previous scams, this one outlines a particular mint on offer in collaboration with YouTube.

The link directs users to a YouTube link, where scammers lure a promo offer for the first 100 participants who have the chance to claim tokens at a 100 percent discount.

It is not yet known whether the phishing scam on the OpenSea Discord channel has been killed or not. OpenSea announced in a Twitter post that the team was investigating the matter.

At the beginning of 2022, the OpenSea NFT marketplace was also exploited by hackers who managed to steal NFT digital art on the platform worth US$1.8 million or equivalent to IDR 26,203,770,000 according to current currency prices. OpenSea promises to compensate the NFT owners on the victimized platforms.