{"id":17887,"date":"2024-10-18T16:33:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/eigenlayers-x-account-hacked-to-promote-fake-airdrop\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:33:36","slug":"eigenlayers-x-account-hacked-to-promote-fake-airdrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/eigenlayers-x-account-hacked-to-promote-fake-airdrop\/","title":{"rendered":"EigenLayer&#8217;s X Account Hacked to Promote Fake Airdrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown individuals gained control of the X account of the restaking protocol EigenLayer to distribute phishing content disguised as an EIGEN airdrop for the second season of Stakedrop. This was warned by on-chain investigator <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/investigations\/166\" title=\"\">ZachXBT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Scam Sniffer, the perpetrators added a malicious link and urged users to claim coins, warning of a &#8220;last call.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">? EigenLayer&#8217;s X account was compromised and posted phishing tweets. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lInHpMIEIM\">pic.twitter.com\/lInHpMIEIM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scam Sniffer | Web3 Anti-Scam (@realScamSniffer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realScamSniffer\/status\/1847229649371451485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the platform, one phishing victim allegedly lost $800,000 in mETH after signing a transaction.<\/p>\n<p>The project team managed to regain control and remove the offending posts.<\/p>\n<p>The second season of Stakedrop began in September and has already concluded.<\/p>\n<p>On September 30, EigenLayer developers lifted restrictions on the transfer of EIGEN. Holders can now trade and transfer their tokens, including airdrop rewards. Major exchanges have listed the asset.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October, the team reported a compromise of the project&#8217;s email branch and the theft of 1.67 million EIGEN, valued at approximately $6 million. Representatives of EigenLayer assured that there are no known vulnerabilities in the protocol or token contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown individuals gained control of the X account of the restaking protocol EigenLayer to distribute phishing content disguised as an EIGEN airdrop for the second season of Stakedrop. This was warned by on-chain investigator ZachXBT. According to Scam Sniffer, the perpetrators added a malicious link and urged users to claim coins, warning of a &#8220;last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17886,"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":[44,1262,1263],"class_list":["post-17887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-eigenlayer","tag-restaking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887","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=17887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}