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← back to feed·PRIVATE-KEY2023-01-14 · 3y ago
Incident · SLOWMIST

NFT God

Malicious Software
Estimated loss
VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE
Root cause is private-key / signer compromise — the on-chain contract behaved exactly as written. No pre-deployment source audit or bytecode review reaches the key-custody perimeter; this is operational-security territory (HSM/MPC hygiene, key rotation, hot-wallet isolation). Bytecode would show nothing wrong.
▰ METHOD
PRIVATE KEY
PRIVATE-KEY
Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

Forensic narrative

Encrypted KOL NFT God tweeted that due to hackers hacking into its Twitter, Substack, Gmail, Discord and wallets, it lost all its encrypted assets and NFTs, and the hackers also posted fraudulent links through the stolen accounts. The reason for being hacked was that the Ledger was set as a hot wallet instead of a cold wallet on the new device, and the mnemonic was imported and used in the wallet on the networked computer. Then yesterday, after downloading the video streaming software OBS for the game live broadcast, I clicked on Google. The sponsored links of the website downloaded malware that gave hackers access to their funds. Yu Xian, the founder of SlowMist, said that the core reason is that the computer runs a game program with a Trojan horse, and then the mnemonic of encrypted assets is connected to the Internet on this computer, so it may be stolen by hackers. Attack method (per SlowMist): Malicious Software. Reported loss: -.

Primary source
https://twitter.com/NFT_GOD/status/1614442000958324739
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
protocol
NFT God
bug_class
private-key
date_occurred
2023-01-14
loss_usd
source_id
sm:nft-god::2023-01-14
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