The virtual world is acquiring more and more space and relevance in the real one. Concepts such as cryptocurrencies, digital worlds, avatars, crypto-art and NFTs are all the rage. But none of them are safe from cybercriminals. Scams are the order of the day.
The news broke in September: NFT collecting was beginning to witness its first scams. Cybercriminals had stolen around 400,000 euros from collector Jeff Nicholas (about 150 units of the Ethereum cryptocurrency).
The attackers posed as a technical support team from a real platform, but it was actually a fictitious NFT platform. Almost magically, by using social engineering techniques, they arrived at just the right moment to access Nicholas’s digital wallet and transfer all his NFT files to another wallet belonging to the thieves, which they then put up for sale.
However, although the files had already been purchased by other people unaware that they were stolen, the platform used Blockchain to locate the wallet to which the thieves had transferred the NFT files.
Security systems as the creation of an emergency
Nicholas’s case is not unique. Another collector named Sohrob Farudi announced on his Twitter account that he had lost more than 600,000 euros due to another social engineering scam.
Due to these attacks, some platforms…
