Incident Overview
The Azuki Twitter @AzukiOfficial was compromised and brought a loss of up to 750,000 $USD.
The Azuki Twitter account was abruptly taken over, and a scam drained over $750,000 worth of USDC, 11 NFTs, and over 3.9 ETH in less than 30 minutes. The scam used malicious links posing as a "land mint" for the Azuki NFT project to trick users into signing transactions that drained assets from their wallets. The Azuki Twitter account was deleted, and the official account removed from Twitter search results within an hour.
The Azuki team confirmed that the account had been compromised and is working to regain control. The NFT collection has been targeted by scammers before.
Incident Report
Protocol Information
What the Attacker Needed to Succeed
Understanding the prerequisites for this type of attack helps auditors identify protocols that are most at risk and helps developers build better defenses.
What Auditors Should Check
If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to Azuki, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (January 2023).
- Verify all logic paths related to Phishing are guarded by proper access controls and input validation - see the Phishing Attacks attack class for patterns
- Review privileged functions (owner, admin, governance) for potential abuse vectors - centralization risks should be documented and bounded with timelocks or multi-sigs
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Free TrialRelated Attack Classes
The technique used in this hack maps to these vulnerability classes in our security curriculum:
Sources & References
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