Arthur Madrid, co-founder and CEO of metaverse challenge The Sandbox, was the sufferer of a Twitter account hack on Could 26, based on a put up from Madrid that was apparently made after he recovered the account. The attacker allegedly used Madrid’s account to advertise a faux “airdrop” phishing rip-off.

In Madrid’s put up, he warned Sandbox customers that they need to “by no means click on on any hyperlink that promote Airdrop or URL and look SCAMMY – and never 100% utilizing our correct and distinctive URL/area title : http://sandbox.sport.”

4 hours earlier than Madrid’s put up, The Sandbox’s official Twitter account additionally warned {that a} scammer had taken management of the account and was selling “a rip-off / phishing hyperlink for a faux airdrop of SAND tokens.”

The put up included a screenshot of the alleged rip-off put up, which marketed a SAND token airdrop and inspired customers to “test eligibility and declare on the positioning,” referring customers to a web site with a unique URL than the official one.

The Sandbox crew said that they have been “engaged on getting the positioning down and repair it ASAP.”

As of 8:26 pm UTC, the alleged rip-off website seems to have been taken down, because it now produces a 404 error.

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Phishing assaults have change into a frequent downside within the crypto neighborhood. On Could 19, a scam-as-a-service referred to as “Inferno Drainer” was reportedly discovered to be operating on Telegram, recruiting web site builders to create tons of of those phishing rip-off websites. By the point it was found, it had reportedly stolen almost $6 million from customers.

On April 15, cybersecurity agency Kaspersky reported that most of these assaults increased by 40% in 2022 in comparison with the earlier yr.