In the collective imagination, the hacker is a computer genius that infiltrates systems and uses his technical skills to achieve his ends. In reality, the latter mainly use social engineering methods to achieve their ends. Ledger, the hardware manufacturer Wallet has just paid the price after his discord was compromised by an attacker.
- Ledger suffered a scandal after his discord server was compromised by a hacker using social engineering methods.
- Ledger users were faced with a disturbing attempted phishing by post, a consequence of a data leak in 2020.
A LEDGER compromise moderator on Discord
This weekend, the Discord of Ledger was the victim of a hacker. Indeed, he managed to compromise the account of a server moderator.
Unsurprisingly, the latter used the proper position of the moderator to try to steal user funds. In practice, he published a series of Messages inviting users to enter their seed phrase on a third -party site.
Once is not customary, the hacker tried to play on user fears in order to create Fud – Fear UCRETAINTY Doubt.
In parallel, the hacker banned and transferred users who tried to warn the scam community.
Quickly, the Ledger teams resumed the situation in hand and have recovered access to the account. As announcement By Quintin Boatwright on the Discord server shortly after.
“The account of one of our contract moderators has been compromised, which allowed a malicious robot to publish fraudulent links in a channel. The problem was quickly controlled: the compromise account was deleted, the robot was deleted, the website was reported and all the relevant authorizations were examined and secure. »»
Pressure Ledger users
Definitely, Ledger users seem to be a privileged target for hackers. Indeed, the latter have recently been the target of a new attempt at large -scale phishing.
This time, rather than the classic emails, the scammers used the post. Thus, users have received letters at their home, explaining that their security was at stake and inviting them to enter their Seed Phrase on a site to secure their wallet.
Unfortunately, this is a reminiscence of the Data leak in Ledger in 2020. Personal information of nearly a million users had then been stolen and has since frequently used by scammers.