{"id":57667,"date":"2022-02-14T11:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57667"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:51:56","slug":"hackers-used-nfts-for-covert-mining-and-cryptocurrency-wallet-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-used-nfts-for-covert-mining-and-cryptocurrency-wallet-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Used NFTs for Covert Mining and Cryptocurrency Wallet Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, NFTs became one of the main mechanisms for disseminating malware used for covert mining or theft of cryptocurrency wallets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/5216108\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0430\u0435\u0442<\/a> Kommersant, citing ESET.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say hackers most often place viruses in gaming NFTs that allegedly contain superpowers or rare weapons. Malicious tools for cryptojacking are embedded via applications.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the main sources of such viruses were torrent resources and porn sites.<\/p>\n<p>ESET notes that in 2021 Russia remained the leader among countries by the number of cryptocurrency-related attack victims \u2014 11.2% of the total. The peak activity occurred from September to December 2021, accounting for 12.3% of all detections worldwide. Analysts link this to the rise in the price of digital currencies.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February Chainalysis identified on the NFT market <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-found-significant-volumes-of-fictitious-trading-in-the-nft-market\">\u201csignificant\u201d volumes of fictitious trading<\/a>. For more on how <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/the-digital-laundromat-how-nfts-are-intensifying-the-money-laundering-problem\">NFTs exacerbate the money-laundering problem<\/a>, see ForkLog.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, NFTs became one of the main mechanisms for disseminating malware for covert mining or theft of cryptocurrency wallets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1916,1213],"class_list":["post-57667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-eset","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57667","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=57667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57669,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57667\/revisions\/57669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}