Azuki’s Twitter account was hacked, several NFTs and $750,000 stolen

Azuki’s Twitter account is in the wrong hands

Friday January 27th Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Project Azuki’s Twitter account has been hacked. The person responsible for the mischief invited the Azuki community to come and “claim the land” in the “garden”, the metaphors assigned to the group.

Screenshot of malicious tweet, since deleted (hidden link)

Unfortunately, via this link that all seemed honest at first glance, Azuki’s wallets were emptied from their wallets. Giving malicious permission on a phishing site. in just 30 minutes, 11 NFTs And 3.9 ETH recovered by the hacker, then 750,000 USDC recovered Send to his wallet It has now been identified as phishing by Etherscan.

The USDCs were then sent to another wallet, also identified by Etherscan, which replaced its tokens with WETH (Ether wrapped) thanks to the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol Uniswap v3.0 through two distinct processes here And here.

Community Manager for the project, Rose, he quickly confirms that Azuki’s account has been hacked. Fortunately, the damage was relatively limited thanks to the community response, since MetaMask, for example, quickly blocked the domain in question to protect its users, just like Phantom or ZenGo.

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It’s a somewhat ambiguous issue

Fortunately, Azuki’s Twitter account was recovered in the eveningand a post-mortem tweet was posted overnight from the project.

1 / the @employee Twitter was hacked today. A series of malicious tweets were posted on the morning of Friday, January 27th (Pacific Time).

The team regained control @employee Twitter.

Details below 👇

– Azuki (@AzukiOfficial) January 27, 2023

As indicated in the thread, the Twitter account was recovered relatively quickly thanks to the work carried out in coordination with the social network’s teams. However, complete mystery remains as to the origin of the glitch, as it appears, according to the press release, That the relevant account has been secured by two-factor authentication (2FA). So Azuki launched an investigation in order to shed light on this topic.

ZachXBT, known for his investigations on the chain, seems to have found the beginning of the lead. According to him, it was the same person who managed to hack Twitter accounts NFT Mutant Projects Hounbds, AKCB, and Chimpers.

It was the same scammer named Lock who hacked the Mutant Hounds, AKCB, and Chimpers Twitter accounts recently. pic.twitter.com/YSgy6SnvJr

– ZachXBT (@zachxbt) January 27, 2023

It also states that the error may come from Twitter’s side And that Azuki’s teams could have done nothing else to prevent the attack, which explains the flaw by bypassing 2FA, a recognized security measure. Actually, we have already seen Some hackers are willing to pay large sums In the past to circumvent the security of Twitter accounts.

However, this is just speculation, and nothing has been confirmed yet. However, it will be interesting to understand how the same hacker gained access to so many different Twitter accounts.

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