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Safeguarding Your Digital Assets

What and What not is possible to attackers!

This article is targeted at Web3 folks ranging from NFTS, DEFI and Degenz. I will list ways hackers can target your assets and ways you can position yourself to not fall in this traps.

  • Read before authorization or authentication: Incase of interacting with contracts, discord authentication or minting a token. Always read what extensively on the access you are giving to the network.
    If it includes dominant control of your wallet or anything asides the purpose of authentication you shouldn't proceed with that transaction and if you have done that already you can quickly go revoke access to your belongings.

  • Do not Interact with strange Token/NFT: This is another way hackers can get control of your wallet.
    This tokens/NFT stands as a backdoor and once interacted with in this sense, giving authorization to the malicious contract and the attacker now have access to your wallet.

  • Safeguard your SeedPhrase: Your seedphrase is an access into your wallet and it shouldn't be saved on your device and if it must be; Take precautionary steps that will keep attackers away from your device.

  • Interact only with trusted links

  • Always Use a 2FA authentication

  • Avoid Pirate websites

  • Avoid Popup updates as high percentage of popup updates are for malicious activities

  • Avoid public wifi

  • Plug only trusted cables or usb

And lastly always remember, if the good guys can do it, the bad guys can do it too
Be safe.

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