Varun Srinivasan
@v
QR Miniapp Update Earlier today, an attacker stole credentials from the QR miniapp and sent notifications from their apps. Users were sent to a different miniapp and encouraged to buy a fake token for $3. The QR team fixed this and reimbursed all users. Shoutout to the QR team for being very quick to respond. There is no other compromise of Farcaster wallets and your funds are safe. What is Farcaster doing to prevent this? Our transaction scanning prevents dangerous “send me all your money” attacks. That’s why the damage was limited to a $3 buy. We are also limiting miniapp notifications to redirect within the same domain. The attacker would have to compromise many more parts of the QR miniapp to pull off this attack again. What can I do to stay safe? If an app is asking you to do something that it normally does not, like buying a new token or claiming an airdrop, check the apps home page or the author’s page to see if it is legitimate before taking the action. If there is some doubt, ask the author over DM or in the feed before taking the action.
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Disky.eth
@disky.eth
Kudos to the team for responding this quickly to the incident! 👏 It's remarkable. Meta or Google or any other platform would have taken weeks to even look at it. A suggestion, in the mini app menu where you can refresh, add the app and see your connected wallets, you could add the link to the dev account so people can check who own it. (yes technically it's in the header, but not tappable) cc: @horsefacts.eth ↑
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