Bored Ape owner loses 3 rare NFTs to phishing attack
A phishing attacker has pilfered three rare-trait Bored Ape Yacht Club nonfungible tokens (NFTs) worth a total of around 56 Ether (ETH), or $167,500 from one unlucky holder.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT first noted the transaction showing the three Bored Apes being moved out of the wallet labeled “tatis.eth” to an Etherscan-labeled known phishing wallet.
The on-chain transaction shows the three Bored Apes on the move. Source: Etherscan
It’s not known exactly how the attack was carried out but the attacker wallet appears to use the wallet drainer-as-a-service Pink Drainer.
Typically such phishing attacks spoof X accounts and websites of crypto projects like Bored Ape creator Yuga Labs’ aiming to pull in crypto users to connect their wallets with promises of rewards.
The attacks can also be more targeted, especially toward wallets home to big-ticket NFTs or large sums of crypto. Either way, once a targeted user connects their wallet to a drainer — it’s plundered.
This time, the phisher got Bored Apes #7531, #6736 and #2100 which among them have the respective rare traits of white fur which just 4% have, a small grin which 3% have, and “Bored Pizza” only seen in 0.5% of the 10,000-strong collection, according to OpenSea.
Crypto influencer NFT cards “fantasy.top” beat Tron on fees
NFT trading cards splattered with images of crypto influencers have made more fees than the blockchain Tron over the past week as Crypto X has seemingly piled into the buzzy project.
“Fantasy.top” on Coinbase’s Ethereum layer 2 Blast launched on May 1 and over the past seven days raked in $9.3 million in fees — the fifth-most profitable crypto project and topping Tron’s $8.73 million earnings, per DefiLlama.
The top 10 protocols by seven day fees. Source: DefiLlama
In the last 24 hours fantasy.top was the seventh-most fee-earning protocol with over $924,000, below Tron’s $1.39 million. For comparison the next highest fee-earning NFT-related project was Blur at…
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