{"id":64667,"date":"2022-07-20T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=64667"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:41:39","slug":"brandshield-helped-the-sandbox-in-the-fight-against-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/brandshield-helped-the-sandbox-in-the-fight-against-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"BrandShield helped The Sandbox in the fight against fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between March and April 2022, cybersecurity firm BrandShield achieved the removal of 120 phishing sites and 58 fake social-media accounts linked to The Sandbox metaverse project. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2022\/07\/20\/the-sandbox-brings-on-security-firm-brandshield-to-prevent-rising-nft-frauds\/\"> CoinDesk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement between the teams is aimed at safeguarding NFT users linked to the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/cryptorium\/chto-takoe-metavselennaya\/\">metaverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to analysing and classifying attacks on crypto wallets, BrandShield also assesses threats emanating from websites and NFT marketplaces.<\/p>\n<p>To reinforce the initiative, The Sandbox is conducting user training.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cWe must provide our players and creators with recommendations to stay vigilant against all external risks,\u201d<\/em> said the project&#8217;s COO, Sebastien Borge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in April 2022, it was reported that The Sandbox team planned to raise $400 million <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/bloomberg-the-sandbox-planiruet-privlech-400-mln-pri-otsenke-4-mlrd\/\"> at a $4 billion valuation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, virtual lands in this metaverse were acquired by Gucci, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/gucci-kupil-uchastok-zemli-v-metavselennoj-the-sandbox\/\"> Gucci<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/standard-chartered-priobrel-virtualnuyu-zemlyu-v-metavselennoj-the-sandbox\/\"> Standard Chartered<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/hsbc-kupil-virtualnuyu-zemlyu-v-metavselennoj-the-sandbox\/\"> HSBC<\/a>, and offices were opened by <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/regulyator-dubaya-otkroet-ofis-v-metavselennoj-the-sandbox\/\"> the Dubai regulator<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/bank-keb-hana-otkroet-filial-v-metavselennoj-the-sandbox\/\"> KEB Hana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More about The Sandbox can be found in<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-sandbox-sand\"> educational cards<\/a> ForkLog.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\u201d\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between March and April 2022, cybersecurity firm BrandShield achieved the removal of 120 phishing sites and 58 fake social-media accounts linked to The Sandbox metaverse project. CoinDesk reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64668,"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":[1353,2060],"class_list":["post-64667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-metaverses","tag-the-sandbox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"57","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64667","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=64667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64669,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64667\/revisions\/64669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}