Be alert! Scammers are on the hunt – they just stole Azuki NFTs from OpenSea.

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Global fraud networks are on the lookout for innocent investors, and most notorious scammers are launching more heinous attacks against cryptocurrency investors. In another fraud attack, fraudsters stole a select collection of non-fungible tokens from the Opensea NFT marketplace through a phishing attack.

Scammers steal Azuki #5007 and Beanz #8008 NFTs.

Peckshield, a well-known blockchain security company, confirmed in a blog post on January 23 that an unknown, notorious fraudster had stolen some NFTs, including Beanz Official #8008 and Azuki #5007, from the Opensea NFT Marketplace through a phishing attack.

#PeckShieldAlert #phishing #NFT #BEANS OFFICIAL #8808 and #azuki #elemental #5007 was stolen. #fake_phishing276019 In ~ #openc pic.twitter.com/xxe3kMhjHs
— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) January 23, 2024

Founded in 2018, PeckShield is a blockchain-based security company started by former Qihoo 360 chief scientist Xuxian Jiang, and its major investors include Gaorong Capital. Other team members are seasoned security experts and senior researchers from the world’s leading security groups, including Qihoo 360, Microsoft, Intel, Juniper, and Alibaba.

Since its founding, PeckShield has been building strategic, long-term collaborations with key players in all areas of the blockchain ecosystem, such as blockchain infrastructure providers, exchanges, cryptocurrency wallets, mining pools, DApp developers, and DeFi pioneers. With decades of experience, Peckshield has successfully uncovered and thwarted many fraud attacks.

The most recent cryptocurrency and NFT scams

Last Friday, the Peckshield blockchain security company confirmed that fraudsters had stolen three collections of non-fungible tokens via a phishing attack on Blur.io, including the Beanz NFT #16149, Beanz NFT #12,990, and Beanz #607 NFT collections.

#PeckShieldAlert #phishing NFT #BEANS OFFICIAL #16149, #12990, and #607 were stolen. #fake_phishing187019 In ~ #blur pic.twitter.com/avvYmjbWaF
— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) January 18, 2024

Additionally, the blockchain security company revealed that fraudsters stole Lil Pudgy #8867, Lil Pudgy #18944, and Lil Pudgy #20,797 from the Blur NFT Marketplace through a phishing attack. These scammers target investors in the most popular NFT projects, such as Pudgy Penguins.

#PeckShieldAlert #phishing NFT #lilfergis #8867, #18944, #20797 were stolen. #fake_phishing187019 In ~ #blur pic.twitter.com/KYVUPRx4EH
— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) January 18, 2024

Meanwhile, PeckShield detected that fraudsters stole $44,800 worth of cryptocurrency from Rose Finance in a hacking attack on January 18. Earlier this week, Peckshield reported that the address 0x1749… We also detected that 3487 people have fallen victim to a phishing scam. ~$3.87 million worth of losses in $aEthWETH.

#PeckShieldAlert PeckShield detected: @rosa_finance Abused for ~$44.8K worth of cryptocurrency. pic.twitter.com/RqCW25Kfll
— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) January 18, 2024