{"id":16384,"date":"2024-08-26T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/discord-channels-of-avalanche-and-zksync-compromised-to-promote-scams\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:21:14","slug":"discord-channels-of-avalanche-and-zksync-compromised-to-promote-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/discord-channels-of-avalanche-and-zksync-compromised-to-promote-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Discord Channels of Avalanche and ZKsync Compromised to Promote Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Discord servers of the Avalanche blockchain and the ZKsync layer-two network have fallen victim to malicious attacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SECURITY ALERT: The official Avalanche Discord has been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not interact with any accounts or click any links until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Avalanche ? (@avax) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avax\/status\/1827758804471288125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On August 25, the Avalanche team reported the breach of their Discord.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cPlease do not interact with any accounts or click on links until further notice,\u201d the developers warned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to screenshots shared on social media, the perpetrators posted links to fake AVAX token distribution schemes in the channel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Avax discord looking sus\u2026disabled chat in all channels and an announcement about \u201cclaiming Avax from the foundation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My advice?<\/p>\n<p>\u2026don\u2019t click anything in that discord for a while\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x9MLy4vPeX\">pic.twitter.com\/x9MLy4vPeX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stog Chog? (@stogchog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stogchog\/status\/1827751907848335499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Approximately an hour and a half after the initial report, the Avalanche team announced they had regained control over the Discord server.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: The official Avalanche Discord has been resecured and will reopen when CMs deem appropriate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bMwSI87TAs\">https:\/\/t.co\/bMwSI87TAs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Avalanche ? (@avax) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avax\/status\/1827784375062368642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe identified the issue and resolved it. In the process, we had to remove suspicious channels and roles [\u2026]. We will work diligently to restore everything to normal. Thank you for your patience,\u201d wrote community head Ben Well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just an hour after the attack on Avalanche, users reported a breach of the official ZKsync Discord channel.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers posted malicious links to a \u201csecond round airdrop,\u201d promising free ZK tokens.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ZKsync discord hacked <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tRtHG8i5qk\">pic.twitter.com\/tRtHG8i5qk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HammerToesKnows (@hammertoesknows) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hammertoesknows\/status\/1827772191523643417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The incidents involving Avalanche and ZKsync channels occurred a day after the Discord server of the Polygon blockchain platform was compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Information Security Officer Mudit Gupta urged users not to click on the posted links \u201cuntil further notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PSA: Do not click on any links in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@0xPolygon<\/a> community discord until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>It has been compromised and we&#8217;re trying to get back ownership.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mudit Gupta (@Mudit__Gupta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mudit__Gupta\/status\/1827235421979603352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe channel is compromised, and we are trying to regain ownership,\u201d he clarified.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One user reported losing $150,000 in Ethereum \u201cthrough an official Polygon announcement in Discord.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@0xPolygon<\/a> I lost $150,000 of my Ethereum pool in one go through Polygon&#8217;s official Discord announcement. Why haven&#8217;t you officially posted the Discord hacking issue on X? How are you going to take responsibility for this?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mr.K (@ValidatorK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ValidatorK\/status\/1827250459444441457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhy haven\u2019t you officially reported the hack on X? How are you going to take responsibility for this?\u201d he asked the team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2023, experts uncovered a phishing scheme involving the distribution of messages with malicious links via Discord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Discord servers of the Avalanche blockchain and the ZKsync layer-two network have fallen victim to malicious attacks. SECURITY ALERT: The official Avalanche Discord has been compromised. Please do not interact with any accounts or click any links until further notice. \u2014 Avalanche ? (@avax) August 25, 2024 On August 25, the Avalanche team reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1413,44,1264,1246,1518],"class_list":["post-16384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-avalanche-avax","tag-cybercrime","tag-polygon-matic","tag-scammers","tag-zksync"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"52","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}