They warn about the theft of cryptocurrencies in the largest NFT market in the world

Check Point Software, a provider of cybersecurity solutions, has detected the theft of virtual wallets and the loss of cryptocurrencies in OpenSea, the largest market for non-fungible tokens (NFT) of the world.

According to a statement published by this company, Check Point Research, its Threat Intelligence division, has been in charge of detecting different cases of users who have shared their negative experience with their social networks. cryptocurrency wallet.

According to the statements that these users have shared on their social networks, have lost all of their balance after receiving a message in which the OpenSea marketplace (the current largest peer-to-peer market for collectible cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens) offered them a gift.

Faced with this fraud, Check Point Research researchers chose to look for vulnerabilities within said platform to determine how cybercriminals had hijacked these accounts. Finally, identified critical security flaws on OpenSea and showed that a malicious NFT had been used to empty these virtual wallets.

The figures provided by the company suggest that OpenSea reached 3.4 billion dollars in volume of transactions only during the past month of August. Its growth has been such that it has led it to become the largest token market in the world. Its growth has been such that it has led it to become the largest token market in the world.

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