The official channel of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) on the popular messaging service Discord was hit by a malicious tool that intended to trick users into minting fake non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from the popular Bored Ape collection, the company said in a tweet on Friday. “Do not mint anything from any Discord right now. A webhook in our Discord was briefly compromised,” BAYC said in a tweet. “We caught it immediately but please know: we are not doing any April Fools stealth mints/airdrops etc.” {tweet} Security researchers said a ticket tool that verifies users and pushes channel-wide notifications was ... (full story)