{"id":169891,"date":"2023-10-07T09:56:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T04:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=169891"},"modified":"2023-10-07T09:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T04:26:37","slug":"galxe-front-end-compromised-in-possible-ongoing-attack-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/galxe-front-end-compromised-in-possible-ongoing-attack-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Galxe front-end compromised in possible ongoing attack &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Domain Name System (DNS) of NFT infrastructure company Galxe has been compromised, with the attacker\u2019s address currently holding $75,000 in digital assets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1710308430991286513\">post<\/a> on X, Galxe noted that its website was down and the team is currently working on a resolution. The company also urged users not to connect their wallet addresses to Galxe in the meantime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\" \/>\n<p>A separate <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/polkastarter\/status\/1710327209569796461\">post<\/a> by Polkastarter, a Web3 fundraising platform, advised users to revoke permissions that had been given to Galxe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe suggest removing all other spending permissions as well to improve the safety of your funds,\u201d the company said on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/polkastarter\/status\/1710327209569796461\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the pseudonymous on-chain investigator <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1710308430991286513\">ZachXBT,<\/a> the Galxe attacker could be the same entity as the attacker who drained approximately <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blockworks.co\/news\/balancer-website-hijack-puts-users-at-risk\">$238,000<\/a> from DeFi liquidity protocol Balancer last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\" \/>\n<p>Stolen funds have been directed to an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0x4103babcfa68e97b4a29fa0b3c94d66afcf6163d#tokentxns\">Ethereum address<\/a>, which, at the time of writing, holds almost $75,000. The attack appears to be ongoing, with the last token transfer taking place at 12:30 pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker appears to be using the same smart contract to execute his hacks across the different networks, X user <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIP_Crypto\">FIP Crypto<\/a> wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FIP Crypto also recommended that users should revoke the smart contract on the 10 different chains that Galxe is deployed on, including Ethereum, Optimism, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Base, Polygon, Avalanche, Fantom, Celo and Cronos.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t miss the next big story \u2013 join our\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blockworks.co\/newsletter?source=end\">free daily newsletter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s trial with the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blockworks.co\/tag\/sbf-trial\">latest news from the courtroom<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Domain Name System (DNS) of NFT infrastructure company Galxe has been compromised, with the attacker\u2019s address currently holding $75,000 in digital assets.\u00a0 In a post on X, Galxe noted that its website was down and the team is currently working on a resolution. The company also urged users not to connect their wallet addresses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-169891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169894,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169891\/revisions\/169894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}