QUADRIGA INITIATIVE
CRYPTO WATCHDOG & FRAUD RECOVERY PLATFORM
A COMMUNITY-BASED, NOT-FOR-PROFIT
UNKNOWN
APRIL 2022
GLOBAL
KAIJU KINGZ
DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS
"Kaiju Kingz is a collection of 3,333 Genesis pixel beasts created by Augminted Labs sent to protect the Metaverse that live on the Ethereum blockchain." "Behold the KaijuKingz; larger than life pixel beasts tearing down a city near you. Our creed is to expand the Metaverse by supporting talented creatives and developers looking to break into NFTs. $RWASTE radiates in the core of our community, passively generated by Genesis Kaijuz as fuel for out Kaijuz. Demolish the old to make way for a new kind of community - a community of Kingz."
"Mint Date October 12, 2021" "KaijuKingz was spawned from the mind of CyberKongz holder and community member, OhDots, under his newly founded company: Augminted Labs. KaijuKingz hopes to expand its community with synergistic mechanics that foster competition and collaboration between Web3 communities. The collection will start with a mint of 3,333 Genesis Kaijuz, each granting its holder access to special perks and accesses. Genesis Kaijuz passively generate Radioactive Waste, which can be used to create Baby Kaijuz. Standing larger than life in a 69x69 pixel square, Kaijuz will have a wide variety of traits, types, and different aesthetics. Holding a Genesis Kaiju will reserve you a throne as a King of the Metaverse."
"KaijuKingz minted in October 2021 and has significant progress as a collection since. They have also gone through some bumps, such as a discord hack. Upon further analysis, we can see that the collection has a 28,000 total of ethereum traded on OpenSea. They have also collaborated with various established projects, such as PXN, Memeland by 9GAG, RaidParty, Possessed, and much more. They frequently give away whitelist spots for other projects in their discord. Kaiju has also had notable influencers invested into the project, such as Takoa, Banks, Champ T, Coco Bear, Zeneca, 9gagceo."
"At first glance, this seems like an anon team behind Kaiju profile pictures. But if we dig slightly deeper, we see that Kaiju is run by Augminted Labs. Augminted Labs’ team is the same guys we see here. If we visit Augminted’s website, we can see that the lead developer, artist, community manager, and developer are all doxxed. This only leaves Kekwin (another developer) to be undoxxed. Bullish sign for us, as majority of the team is accessible and we know who they are."
"Lift off has completed, and we are ready to land! Mint your Legendary Kaiju now! Supply 100! Limite amount! Mint 0.05 ETH. Genesis has a limited supply, be quick! Be sure to approve when minting to ensure the transaction goes through!"
"[A]ll other discords getting hacked while in @KaijuKingz we make the hackers feel like they are the joke cause we out spam them #Kingz @ohDotss"
While Ticket Tool has not released an official announcement, they did offer this explanation: "A recent update I made to the add command had a bug allowing for some type of permission exploit. I've reverted the update to the previous uncompromised version and will be looking into exactly how this happened. The bot itself is not compromised beyond a very unfortunate bug."
The Kaiju Kings are a collection of thousands of pixel beast NFTs, which are rare collectibles that provide access to a specialized metaverse or the ability to mint other NFTs and tokens. On April 1st, 2022, their Discord was again hacked through the Ticket Tool bot. Many concerned users banded together to post more spam at a faster rate than the bot, drowning out their scam message. There is little information about how many users were affected and no official announcements appear to have been made by the team.
HOW COULD THIS HAVE BEEN PREVENTED?
It is recommended to be extremely cautious of any links posted on Discord, given the repeated hacks of the platform. Users need to be cautious with any posted links. Always check any communication against multiple official sources of a project.
Platforms should be extremely cautious regarding the permissions which are granted via Discord, and limit the access levels to critical functionality. Discord should improve their security and offer multi-signature permissions for key functions. Ideally, public groups should be managed from an exclusive account which isn't used for anything else.
@zachxbt Twitter (Jun 19)
KaijuKingz (Jul 14)
Kaiju Kingz - NFT Overview (Jul 14)
https://opensea.io/collection/kaiju-kingz (Jul 14)
Warning: Hackers Are Targeting Discord Bots to Rob NFT Users (Jul 16)
https://medium.com/@zaydy/kaiju-kingz-analysis-f1f57b68816e (Jul 16)
Several huge NFT Discords hacked by scam attacks | TechRadar (Jul 17)
Bored Ape Yacht Club, Other Major NFT Project Discords Hacked by Scammers (Jul 17)
https://etherscan.io/address/0xad7f0a2427f93bc8fc178a73ae0d2d188682884f (Jun 20)
https://etherscan.io/address/0x82b9d87ffd80449ca96ec67c19f5d0631b18d5db (Jul 13)
@Serpent Twitter (Jul 17)
@Ticket_Tool Twitter (Jul 17)
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