Une campagne de phishing liée à la Corée du Nord cible les utilisateurs de NFT

• Des experts en sécurité en Corée du Sud affirment que la Corée du Nord soutient les pirates alors qu'elle tente de lever davantage de fonds suite aux sanctions imposées à son économie.

• Les pirates ont pillé plus de $1 milliard de projets de cryptographie en 2022 seulement.

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Crypto analysts and researchers have découvert une campagne de phishing menée par des pirates ayant des liens avec la Corée du Nord qui s'attaque aux utilisateurs de NFT qui achètent des jetons sur des marchés populaires comme OpenSea, X2Y2 et Rarible. Selon les découvertes, les utilisateurs achètent des NFT supposés légitimes sur ces plateformes et sont redirigés vers des sites frauduleux pour terminer le processus de frappe.

However, these websites tried to collect vital data from the minting process, including IP addresses, and authorizations. Users were allegedly tricked into performing authorizing actions such as sending their Seaport signature, which is required to confirm NFT contracts created on OpenSea.

The scam initiative has allegedly been going on for some months. Researchers claim that there are over 500 domains operating these kinds of “malicious mints”. The early domains were reportedly created earlier this year. Additionally, the large bulk of these domains shared the same IP address and earned the hackers a profit of $366,000.

Les pirates ont conçu various schemes this year, and North Korea has been traced to some of the biggest hacks on crypto platforms this year. South Korea’s main intelligence service noted that cybercriminals with ties to North Korea have robbed about $1.2 billion in the past five years.

North Korea is said to have turned to cybercrime as a means of generating income following U.N. sanctions imposed in 2016 and 2017 as a result of the country’s nuclear program. North Korea has been unable to profit from its resources and seems to have backed hackers to bring in extra income.

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