Shamanzs Discord Hack

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Shamanzs

Shamanzs NFT Discord included the third party Ticket Tool plug-in, which was either malicious or exploited by a third party to post malicious links on the discord channel. The malicious link took users to a fake minting page, where they could generously donate their money to the hacker if they didn't have an interest in verifying the smart contract address. Multiple users were scammed, and it doesn't seem like the project did anything to assist victims. Proceeds were mixed with TornadoCash.

About Shamanzs

"Barcelona based award-winning design studio Brosmind, is led by brothers Juan and Alejandro." "Shamanzs is an original collection of 9898 programmatically and randomly generated NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. Hundreds of traits have been drawn by hand, to create a vast array of high quality and unique loving characters." "Mint Date: May 19[, 2022]"

"The wisest Monkzs, Sadhuzs, Godzs and Guruzs on spiritual land, no matter which ancient religion they belong to, are secretly joining forces to create a powerful unified legion. Their goal is to spread love and good vibezs to erase bad energies from mother Earth for once. A new army of Shamanzs is secretly emerging, and the largest community of followerzs ever seen, is about to enlighten the whole metaverse with limitless positive energy." "Leaders from different tribes, beliefs, religions, backgrounds and natures are fusing in an evolved and upgraded version; self-proclaimed as SHAMANZS."

"Also in the afternoon of March 1st. A number of other famous NFT projects were also hacked by Discord in a similar way, including Doodles, Shamanzs and Nyoki."

"Hackers are mainly posing a fake phishing scam using the Discord Bot to disguise the fake links as legitimate new offerings. Vice confirmed that the link links users to two crypto wallets, such as Fake_Phishing5519 and Fake_Phishing5520 on blockchain explorer Etherscan, and that both wallets have experience extensive activity over the past few days as the hackers try to launder their stolen cryptocurrency."

"The first account obtained one NFT, sold it, and sent almost 20 ETH to the second wallet. The second one then sent more than 60 ETH to a mixing service, to “launder” the tokens. After that, the second wallet sent .6 ETH to two addresses - one inactive, and one with more than 1,400 ETH, and more than 6 million Tether coins."

"Bored Ape Yacht Club, Nyoki and Shamanz have all tweeted warnings to users that their Twitter bots have been hacked and are advertising new, completely fake NFTs. If users take users to legitimate NFT sites, the link directs users’ crypto to a pair of crypto wallets that have been illegally laundering their ill-gotten gains."

"We acted fast and in less than 5 minutes we could find the hack. Thanks for everyone helping. The ticket bot has been compromised, remove it from you server if you haven’t yet. We made our DC private."

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."

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What Happened

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Key Event Timeline - Shamanzs Discord Hack

Date	Event	Description
April 1st, 2022 12:10:00 AM MDT	ZachXBT Reports Attack	Twitter user ZachXBT reports that the Shamanz Discord is also attacked. The funds are being sent to Fake_Phishing5519.
April 1st, 2022 12:56:24 AM MDT	Shamanz Report On Twitter	Shamanz posts a response on Twitter indicating that they "acted fast".
April 1st, 2022 12:35:00 PM MDT	Vice News Article Published	Vice News publishes an article on the situation, which includes that the Discord channels of platforms including Bored Ape Yacht Club, Nyoki, Shamanz, Doodles, and Kaiju Kingz were all hacked. It provides an excerpt of some of the phishing posts, some basic blockchain analysis, and mention of some other Discord attacks.
April 1st, 2022 12:46:00 AM MDT	Serpent Reports Ticket Tool Hack	Twitter user Serpent (formerly SerpentAU) makes another post that it's "100% CONFIRMED" that "TICKET TOOL IS HACKED" along with screenshots of an "AUDIT LOG FROM DOODLES & SHAMANZS".
April 1st, 2022 1:34:00 AM MDT	Ticket Tool Posts Tweet	Ticket Tool posts an update Tweet that the problem was a recent update that "had a bug allowing for some type of permission exploit". The developer reported that he "reverted the update to the previous uncompromised version and will be looking into exactly how this happened".
April 2nd, 2022 9:12:00 AM MDT	Serpent Requesting Code Inspection	Serpent requests to be unbanned from the Ticket Tool discord and that he be allowed to look at the source code to get more information. His Tweet does not appear to have ever been responded to.
April 2nd, 2022 5:23:48 PM MDT	CryptoHubK Article Published	CryptoHubK published a summary of the situation. It is reported that hackers gained access to the Discord of Bored Ape Yacht Club, Mutant Ape Yacht Club, and Mutant Ape Kennel Club. The article included the PeckShield alert. Some information is later included on the Doodle NFT Discord attack, and the suggestion that this was responsible for the loss of Jay Chou's BAYC #3738. The article also includes general information on other Discord hacks, however it appears to incorrectly state the dates as March 1st for other attacks.
April 4th, 2022 10:39:11 AM MDT	Tech Radar Article Published	TechRadar publishes an article on the situation. It includes Bored Ape Yacht Club, Nyoki, Shamanz, Doodles, and Kaiju Kingz. An example of the phishing tweet on Bored Ape Yacht Club is provided, as well as the response by Noyki Club. It gives some background on the NFT minting process, and mentions that all projects were quick to react to the situation. Information about the wallets were also included.
April 4th, 2022 10:48:00 AM MDT	Candid Technology Article Published	Candid Technology publishes an article on the situation. The article mentions Bored Ape Yacht Club, Nyoki, and Shamanzs as victims, as well as referencing attacks on Doodles and Kaiju Kingz as reported by ZachXBT. The reactions by platforms Nyoki Club and Bored Ape Yacht Club were included, as well as wallet addresses Fake_Phishing5519 and Fake_Phishing5520 and some of the attempts at mixing the proceeds.
April 4th, 2022	Game News 24 Article Published	Game News 24 publishes an article that "Bored Ape Yacht Club, Nyoki and Shamanz have all tweeted warnings to users that their Twitter bots have been hacked and are advertising new, completely fake NFTs" and that "the link directs users’ crypto to a pair of crypto wallets that have been illegally laundering their ill-gotten gains".
April 8th, 2022 12:11:23 PM MDT	NFTNow Article Published	NFTNow publishes an article on the situation. It mentions Bored Ape Yacht Club, Shamanz, and Nyoki Club as the projects with their Discord channels attacked. Fake NFT links are included, and a specific quote of the announcements for Nyoki Club. Background on the funds, wallets, and some history of Discord attacks is also included in the article.

Total Amount Lost

The total amount lost is unknown.

Attackers wallet is reportedly included FakePhishing_5519 and FakePhishing_5520.

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Immediate Reactions

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Shamanz Twitter Post

Shamanz posted on Twitter.

We acted fast and in less than 5 minutes we could find the hack. Thanks for everyone helping. The ticket bot has been compromised, remove it from you server if you haven’t yet. We made our DC private.

Ultimate Outcome

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Total Amount Recovered

There do not appear to have been any funds recovered in this case.

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Ongoing Developments

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General Prevention Policies

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.

Individual Prevention Policies

No specific policies for individual prevention have yet been identified in this case.

For the full list of how to protect your funds as an individual, check our Prevention Policies for Individuals guide.

Platform Prevention Policies

Policies for platforms to take to prevent this situation have not yet been selected in this case.

For the full list of how to protect your funds as a financial service, check our Prevention Policies for Platforms guide.

Regulatory Prevention Policies

No specific regulatory policies have yet been identified in this case.

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