VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
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
For several weeks last year, Webaverse was targeted by a skilled scam gang posing as investors, Webaverse reported. The Webaverse team and the crooks met in Rome at the end of November 2022, and approximately $4 million was stolen. They reported the theft to the local Rome police station the same day, and then to the FBI a few days later on Form IC3. Attack method (per SlowMist): Scam. Reported loss: $ 4,000,050.
Primary source
https://twitter.com/0xngmi/status/1622614930519212032 ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Webaverse
- bug_class
- rug
- date_occurred
- 2022-11-26
- loss_usd
- $4,000,050
- source_id
- sm:webaverse::2022-11-26
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