Blockchain for high-level crypto game Axi Infinity It was reportedly hacked with a phishing scheme involving fake LinkedIn job offers. Bloc I mentioned the news Today, according to two sources familiar with the incident. It revealed a new dimension to one of the largest decentralized financial, or DeFi, hacks to date.
according to BlocHackers – identified by the US government as the North Korean Lazarus Group – have targeted employees of Axi Infinity Developer Sky Mavis. They reportedly communicated via LinkedIn on behalf of a bogus company, and when employees took the bait, they proceeded with multiple rounds of mock job interviews and then a “very generous” bogus compensation package. This culminated in a senior engineer clicking on a PDF that purportedly contained the official offer – at which point hackers first compromised the engineer’s computer, and then four of the nine nodes used to verify financial transactions on Sky Mavis’s Ronin blockchain.
Sky Mavis previously revealed That hackers took control of a fifth node of a decentralized node in theory tog DAO, thanks to the decision to allow Sky Mavis to sign transactions during a particularly busy period in November. Then, they drained the cryptocurrency Ethereum and USDC that backed Sky Mavis’ treasury, the equivalent of about $625 million at the time. (After the recent cryptocurrency crash, we are close to $225 million now.) The company noticed the hack a week after it happened in March. Earlier in the post-mortem, he blamed “advanced spear phishing attacks” that offended an employee who no longer works at Sky Mavis – but did not explain the exact mechanism of the hack.
Axi Infinity It was once seen as an example of the success of ‘play to win’ games with some players Make a living full time From the real money economy. But the value of its tokens has plummeted amid the larger crypto crash, and Sky Mavis has spent the past months recovering from the hack. It raised $150 million in funding to help compensate players and reopened transactions on the Ronin Bridge last week. (Disclosure: I purchased three non-fungible tokens or NFTs to play and report on the game earlier this year.) It also implemented additional security measures to prevent future hacks. Meanwhile, a second game called Axi Infiniti Origins And the I tried to get away From being known as an attempt to make money rather than as a game that is played for fun.
