Hackers stole assets worth $250,000 from NFT Investments

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British company NFT Investmentsannounced the loss of assets worth $250,000. The company said that its specialists had detected a “fraudulent phishing attack from an unknown external source.”

In order to counteract intruders inThe company implemented an “emergency incident response” plan. An independent company has been entrusted with investigating the details of the cyber attack. Details of the incident are not disclosed.

“The company will immediately informmarket if there are any changes in the investigation of the situation that need to be notified,” NFT Investments said in an official statement.

According to the interim unauditedAs a result, NFT Investment's total net assets amount to approximately $37 million. According to the preliminary disclosure of information about the incident, the company suffered damages amounting to "less than 1%" of the value of its current net assets.

At the end of December last year, blockchain security company SlowMist published
report according to which North Koreanthe hacker group Lazarus has targeted the wallets of investors investing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs). To this end, attackers created more than 500 phishing addresses to steal digital assets.