Stargate used voting for a $43k phishing attack
An unknown person posted an announcement about a Stargate vote that contained a phishing link. More than 1,000 people became victims of the scammer, experts from the PeckShield platform report. #PeckShieldAlert A Discord Mod on #LayerZero has reported that a scammer who introduced a phishing link within a proposal vote on the #Stargate Snapshot platform, enticing users to stake $STG tokens. Over 1K users took part in the vote, resulting in a loss of ~$43K pic.twitter.com/ShmCvLLOJ1 — PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) December 4, 2023 The incident was reported by the moderator of the Discord channel of the LayerZero project. He noted that the attack er bought 50,000 STG to gain access to create a voting proposal on the Snapshot site. After that, he published an announcement about the launch of the first phase of gSTG token distribution. The advertisement contained a phishing link that led to a fraudulent website. More than 1,000 users followed it, the source notes. ...