Cryptocurrency

"Apparent Ukraine WORLD Airdrop Might Be Spoof"

2022-03-03 [vendor] Ukraine airdrop spoofed [chain] ethereum
Primary Source ↗
Blockchain(s) Ethereum

Incident Details

After embracing cryptocurrency donations to help fund its resistance to Russian invasion, the Ukrainian government decided to try to solicit even more donations by announcing they would airdrop a token to anyone who donated. There was some excitement on March 3 as it appeared that Ukraine was seeding liquidity pools on Uniswap with $WORLD tokens. However, blockchain analysis tool Etherscan shortly afterwards marked the token as “misleading… and may be spam or phishing”. It’s not yet clear what the person apparently spoofing the tokens was trying to do.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Phishing attack
Vendor / Product
Ukraine airdrop spoofed

Timeline

  1. 2022-03-03 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-03-03 Publicly disclosed