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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Animoca to repay users 265 ETH stolen in fake NFT drop Discord hack

The attack is the latest in a long string of exploits targeting users on Discord with fake “stealth” NFT drops.

Hong Kong-based gaming and venture capital company Animoca Brands and subsidiary Blowfish Studios have promised users that they will repay 265 ETH (US$1.1 million) stolen in a fraudulent nonfungible token (NFT) sale on D`iscord.

The fraudulent minting event occurred at approximately 3 AM AEDT on Nov 19 on the Phantom Galaxies Discord server. It saw 1,571 fake minting transactions over the course of about three hours.

Phantom Galaxies is an upcoming Australian game being developed by Blowfish Studios. The Phantom Galaxies Discord server has 94,000 members.

In an increasingly common occurrence on Discord, hackers gained control of the official Phantom Galaxies server by using a malware bot that compromised the Admin account’s two-factor authentication. Once in control of the Discord server, the hackers banned all staff, advisor, and community moderator accounts.

Screenshot of a fraudulent announcement about the so-called NFT drop. Source: PhantomGalaxies Discord server.

The hackers then began posting announcements, claiming that the game was launching an immediate surprise “stealth” NFT minting event. Users were directed to a fraudulent “Phantom Galaxies NFT minting platform,” which charged users a 0.1 ETH “minting fee.”

Screenshot of the fraudulent website where users could “mint” PhantomGalaxies NFTs.

Chairman of Animoca Brands Yat Siu warned followers about the fraudulent NFT drop in a tweet at around 4AM AEDT Nov. 19.

At 5:22AM he posted another tweet, saying that affected customers will be “appropriately compensated.” This has since been confirmed in a Nov. 24 release from Animoca, which stated that details regarding compensation will be announced shortly.

“Woodz,” a Californian project manager for an upcoming NFT project called Terra Obscura lost $1000 USD to this attack. They told Cointelegraph they realized they’d been scammed shortly after ‘minting’ two non-existent NFTs:

“As I was doing it, it seemed a bit off. The gas was unusually low and the contract looked different. I knew something was wrong but not sure what.”

Woodz added they “don’t normally just click links,” but fell into the hacker’s trap because of the way the announcement was positioned inside the official announcement channel.

Related: Beeple’s Discord compromised, timed to coincide with Christie’s auction

The attack on Phantom Galaxies comes after a similar recent attack on Nov. 11 involving famed NFT artist, Beeple. Users thought they were signing up for a very affordable NFT drop, timed to coincide with his second Christie’s auction.

The perpetrator impersonated one of the channel admins and the Beeple Announcements Bot to promote a fake NFT drop from Beeple on Nifty Gateway. Beeple has since removed links to the Discord from his Twitter profile, and other links to the server no longer appear not to work.

According to an Oct. 21 report by cyber security company RiskIQ, Discord is becoming an increasingly popular platform for cybercriminals. RiskIQ researchers uncovered 27 unique malware types hosted on Discord's CDN servers.

In April, Talos Intelligence similarly found that hackers were increasingly using platforms like Discord to take advantage of users who were at home due to global COVID-19 restrictions.

“Attackers are leveraging collaboration platforms, such as Discord and Slack, to stay under the radar and evade organizational defenses,” it wrote at the time.

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