Past drains
Drains that are contained or have gone quiet, newest first. 62 incidents.
September 2026 2
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Crypto casino Duelbits loses about $7M from hot wallets in suspected private-key compromise
On 24 September 2026 crypto casino Duelbits had hot wallets drained across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Tron, Bitcoin and Solana. Co-founder Joe called it a hack of about $7M; other estimates run from about $4.2M (Scam Sniffer, early) to about $6M (CertiK), and Rekt traced about $6.07M. Scam Sniffer and SlowMist point to a leaked private key, but Duelbits has not published a root cause. The site reopened on 27 September and said user funds were safe.
Duelbits crypto casino hot wallets·Ethereum, BNB Chain, Tron, Bitcoin, Solana·$7.0M stolen·Since Sep 24, 2026·
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Brevo login flaw lets attacker email a fake Trezor 'STM32 entropy' alert to 347,000 subscribers
An attacker abused an authorization flaw in email platform Brevo to reach 138 client accounts and send phishing from six of them. One was a fake Trezor 'Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability' sent to about 347,000 Trezor newsletter subscribers, linking to an app that asked for wallet backups; BitBox's list and CoinTracking (a fake 'refresh API keys' email) were also used. Trezor took the phishing domain down within 20 minutes; about 2,500 people opened the link and no losses have been reported. Recipients should expect follow-up phishing to the same addresses.
Trezor, BitBox and CoinTracking newsletter subscribers·Bitcoin, Multiple EVM chains·Since Sep 9, 2026·
July 2026 4
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Dormant PancakeSwap LP loses $2.96M after signing a malicious EIP-7702 authorization
A long-inactive PancakeSwap liquidity provider lost about $2.96 million after signing a malicious EIP-7702 authorization, according to Specter monitoring reported by ChainCatcher on 23 July 2026. The attacker pulled about $1.48M of BSC-USD and $1.48M of BUSD liquidity, sent about $1.46M to Tornado Cash and still held about $1.48M in USDT at the time. An EIP-7702 authorization hands control of your whole account to a contract, so never sign one from a site you did not seek out.
A PancakeSwap liquidity provider (BNB Chain)·BNB Chain·$3.0M stolen·Since Jul 23, 2026·
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Ethereum user loses 999,999 USDT after signing a phishing token approval
On 8 July 2026 an Ethereum user signed a phishing token approval and lost 999,999 USDT, nearly $1M, according to Scam Sniffer. The attacker used multicalls and pulled the funds out in three transactions. One signature on a fake site was enough to empty the stablecoin balance.
Ethereum USDT holder·Ethereum·$1000K stolen·Since Jul 8, 2026·
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Zscaler: live web campaigns hide prompt injections telling browsing AI agents to make crypto payments
SecurityWeek reported on 6 July 2026 that Zscaler found two campaigns in use that plant hidden instructions on web pages for AI agents that can browse and pay. One used SEO poisoning to lure agents searching for a fake Python package, requests-secure-v2, backed by 10 GitHub repositories; the other typosquatted the DeFi portfolio tracker DeBank. In Zscaler's own tests 4 of 26 models were manipulated into making a payment and 2 mistook the fake DeBank site for the real one. No real losses were reported, but agents with spending power should only pay allow-listed recipients.
AI agents that browse the web and can pay·Multiple EVM chains·Since Jul 6, 2026·
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Wallet holder loses $1.65M after signing an unlimited token approval on a fake exchange
In early July 2026 a crypto wallet holder connected to a fake exchange site and signed a malicious contract approval that gave the attacker unlimited spending rights. An automated sweeper then emptied the wallet of about $1.65 million. Anyone who signs approvals on unfamiliar trading sites is at risk; check and revoke token approvals you do not recognise.
A crypto wallet holder using a fake exchange site·Multiple EVM chains·$1.6M stolen·Since Jul 3, 2026·
June 2026 5
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Medium✕Still active
'Silent Swap' clipper hides in a fake Google Notes browser extension to swap wallet addresses
McAfee researchers found unsigned .NET and Go installers, linked to the CountLoader malware loader, that force-install a fake 'Google Notes' extension into Chromium browsers. The extension reads the clipboard and replaces copied Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, XRP, Dash and Solana addresses with attacker addresses; it finds its control server through a smart contract. Anyone who finds an unknown 'Google Notes' extension should remove it and treat anything copied while it was installed as exposed. No loss total was published.
Chromium browser users infected via unsigned installers (fake 'Google Notes' extension)·Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana·Since Jun 30, 2026·
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Polymarket front-end compromised through third-party vendor; about $3M of users' pUSD drained
Polymarket disclosed on 25 June 2026 that a breached third-party vendor let attackers inject malicious code into its website for some users. Users who interacted with the compromised front-end had their pUSD (Polymarket's USDC-backed stablecoin) drained; Bubblemaps estimated about $3M taken from fewer than 15 users, and the funds were converted to ETH. Polymarket removed the code and says it will fully refund affected users.
Polymarket web app users·Polygon, Ethereum·$3.0M stolen·Since Jun 25, 2026·
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High✕Still active
Microsoft: USB-spread 'CryptoBandits' clipper swaps wallet addresses and steals seed phrases over Tor
Microsoft reported a Windows crypto clipper, detected as Trojan:Win32/CryptoBandits, active since February 2026 and spreading through malicious shortcut (.lnk) files on USB drives. It checks the clipboard every half second, replaces copied Bitcoin, Tron and Monero addresses with lookalikes that share the first characters, grabs copied 12/24-word seed phrases and private keys, takes screenshots, and talks to its servers over Tor. Always check the whole address on your wallet or device screen before sending. No loss total was published.
Windows users who open shortcut files from USB drives·Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron·Since Jun 17, 2026·
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Compromised Injective SDK on npm hooks key functions to steal seed phrases and private keys
Attackers who compromised Injective Labs' GitHub repository published @injectivelabs/sdk-ts 1.20.21 to npm, along with 17 related @injectivelabs packages pinned to it. The malicious build hooked the fromMnemonic and fromHex functions and sent seed phrases and private keys to an Injective-looking endpoint whenever an app used them. It was downloaded about 310 times before being deprecated; no thefts had been reported. Any key or seed that passed through 1.20.21 should be treated as stolen; the clean version is 1.20.23.
npm package @injectivelabs/sdk-ts and 17 related @injectivelabs packages·Multiple EVM chains·Since Jun 8, 2026·
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Critical◐Partly contained
Humanity Protocol loses $36M after malware on one developer machine exposes hot-wallet and Safe keys
On 8 June 2026 an attacker used private keys taken from a single malware-infected developer machine to seize Humanity Protocol's admin hot wallet and its Safe multisigs on Ethereum (three of six keys) and BNB Chain (three of five). They drained about 141M H tokens, used malicious bridge upgrades to mint hundreds of millions more and sold them, a loss of more than $36M; H fell about 89% from its high. The team halted bridge deposits and withdrawals and told users not to touch the bridge or liquidity pools.
Humanity Protocol (H token) bridges and treasury·Ethereum, BNB Chain·$36M stolen·Since Jun 8, 2026·
May 2026 7
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Critical✕Still active
'Ill Bloom' weak-randomness flaw lets attackers sweep about $5M from software-wallet seeds, Solana included
Coinspect disclosed in July 2026 that some wallet software generated seed phrases with a weak random number generator, letting attackers guess the keys. On May 27, 2026, an attacker drained about $3.1 million from 431 of 2,114 vulnerable wallets in one address set, and about $2 million more moved later. That makes roughly $5 million known so far, across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Rootstock, Tron and Solana. Hardware-wallet seeds appear unaffected. Less widely used mobile software wallets are the likeliest source, with affected wallets dating back to 2018. Check older addresses with Coinspect's checker and move funds to a freshly generated wallet.
Seed phrases made by some less widely used mobile software wallets (2018 onward)·Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Tron·$5.0M stolen·Since May 27, 2026·
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TrapDoor packages on npm, PyPI and Crates.io steal wallet data and plant hidden prompts for AI coding tools
Socket reported in late May 2026 a campaign it named TrapDoor: more than 34 malicious packages and 384+ related versions across npm, PyPI and Crates.io that steal crypto wallet data and other developer secrets. The packages also tried to alter files that AI coding tools read, such as .cursorrules and CLAUDE.md, using hidden Unicode instructions meant to get the assistant to run scan-like steps that find and send out secrets. No confirmed losses or victim counts have been published. Developers who installed flagged packages should rotate credentials and move wallet funds.
Developers installing packages from npm, PyPI and Crates.io·Multiple EVM chains·Since May 26, 2026·
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StablR's EURR and USDR depeg after attacker takes over 1-of-3 minting multisig with a stolen key
On 23-24 May 2026 an attacker used the compromised private key of one signer on StablR's 1-of-3 minting multisig to add themselves as owner, replace the other owners and mint 8.35M USDR and 4.5M EURR, about $13.5M face value. They dumped about $10.4M of it on DEXs for ETH, with early net proceeds estimated at $2.8M, pushing USDR as low as $0.40 and EURR to about $0.85. ZachXBT said he helped freeze a six-figure sum.
StablR EURR and USDR stablecoins and holders·Ethereum·$2.8M stolen·Since May 23, 2026·
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Medium✕Still active
Fake $CJUP 'Jupuary' tokens airdropped to Solana wallets lead to drainer sites
In May 2026, Solana Floor warned that scammers were sending counterfeit '$CJUP' tokens to Solana wallets while impersonating Jupiter's Jupuary airdrop. The tokens point holders to phishing 'claim' sites that drain any wallet that connects. Losses were not quantified. Jupiter had not announced a new airdrop at the time, and its only official site is jup[.]ag. If a token you never bought appears with a claim link, ignore it.
Jupiter (JUP) community and Solana wallet users·Solana·Since May 22, 2026·
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Trader loses over $200K from two SIGMA Telegram bot wallets in apparent private-key leak
On 11 May 2026 a crypto trader lost over $200,000 across Ethereum, Base and BSC from two wallets created by the SIGMA Telegram trading bot; the largest losses were about $125,000 in POD on Base and $21,000 in FHE on BSC. An on-chain analyst said the drain used the private keys directly, with no token approval involved, while the victim's other wallets were untouched. The cause is unconfirmed; suggestions include fake CAPTCHA bots in Telegram, infostealer malware or a device compromise. Users of bot-generated wallets should keep balances small and never run 'verification' steps a Telegram bot asks for.
SIGMA Telegram trading bot wallets (one trader)·Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain·$200K stolen·Since May 11, 2026·
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Encoded X post tricks Grok and Bankrbot into sending about 3 billion DRB tokens from Grok's wallet
On 4 May 2026 an attacker drained about 3 billion DRB tokens, worth roughly $150,000 to $200,000 depending on the estimate, from a Bankr wallet linked to xAI's Grok on Base. Reports say the attacker first sent the wallet a free Bankr Club membership NFT that widened what it could authorize, then posted a Morse-coded message; Grok decoded it and the Bankr automation treated Grok's reply as a valid transfer order. No private key, smart contract or malware was involved, and some funds were later returned. An AI's text output should never count as permission to move money.
Grok-linked Bankr wallet (Bankrbot on X)·Base·$155K stolen·Since May 4, 2026·
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High✕Still active
FEMITBOT: fake Telegram bots and Mini Apps impersonate crypto brands to take deposits and push Android malware
CTM360 found a shared fraud platform, FEMITBOT, behind many Telegram bots that open Mini App phishing pages inside Telegram, impersonating crypto services such as MoonPay (other outlets also list Bitget, OKX, Binance and Fragment) plus streaming and AI brands. Victims see fake balances and earnings and are told to deposit money or recruit others to 'unlock' withdrawals; some Mini Apps also push Android APK malware. No total losses have been published. Do not start bots or open Mini Apps from ads or unsolicited invites, and never pay to withdraw 'earnings'.
Telegram users targeted with fake crypto and investment bots (impersonating MoonPay and other brands)·Multiple EVM chains·Since May 3, 2026·
April 2026 5
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Critical✕Still active
Wasabi Protocol vaults drained of $4.5M after attacker uses a compromised deployer admin key
On 30 April 2026 an attacker used the compromised key of wasabideployer.eth, an ordinary wallet that held Wasabi's only ADMIN_ROLE, to grant themselves admin rights with no delay. A helper contract then upgraded the perp vaults and Long Pool on Ethereum and Base to malicious code that emptied them. CoinDesk put losses at about $4.55M; Blockaid flagged the attack. Wasabi LP holders were urged to revoke approvals to the vault contracts.
Wasabi Protocol vaults and LP holders (Ethereum, Base)·Ethereum, Base·$4.5M stolen·Since Apr 30, 2026·
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High◐Partly contained
Kaspersky finds 26 'FakeWallet' apps on Apple's App Store stealing wallet recovery phrases
Kaspersky found 26 decoy apps on Apple's App Store (games, calculators, to-do lists) that opened a fake App Store page and pushed users to sideload trojanized versions of MetaMask, Ledger, Trust Wallet, Coinbase, TokenPocket, imToken and Bitpie. The trojanized hot wallets captured recovery phrases during wallet creation or restore, and the Ledger lure asked for the phrase directly. The campaign ran since at least fall 2025, mostly against users in China, and is attributed with moderate confidence to the SparkKitty actors; Kaspersky reported all apps to Apple. No loss total was published.
iPhone users who installed fake MetaMask, Ledger, Trust Wallet, Coinbase, TokenPocket, imToken or Bitpie apps·Multiple EVM chains, Bitcoin, Tron·Since Apr 20, 2026·
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CoW Swap domain hijacked via registrar social engineering; cloned site drains users through approvals
On 14 April 2026 attackers took control of the domain for swap.cow.fi and sent visitors to a cloned CoW Swap interface that asked for malicious token approvals. CoW DAO paused its backend and APIs and told users to revoke approvals made after 14:54 UTC; the protocol's smart contracts were not affected. Early estimates were about $500K drained; Halborn later put user losses at about $1.2M and said the registrar had been social-engineered.
CoW Swap (swap.cow.fi) users·Ethereum·$1.2M stolen·Since Apr 14, 2026·
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notnullOSX Mac stealer swaps Ledger Live and Trezor apps for trojanized copies
Moonlock found notnullOSX, a macOS stealer spread through Google Ads, promoted YouTube videos and fake wallpaper sites using ClickFix-style 'paste this in Terminal' instructions. Its ReplaceApp module replaces the user's Ledger Live or Trezor app with a trojanized copy to catch the recovery phrase, and it also copies desktop and browser-extension wallet data. Operators reportedly target people holding more than $10,000 in crypto. No loss total was published.
Mac users with Ledger Live, Trezor Suite or desktop/extension wallets·Bitcoin, Multiple EVM chains·Since Apr 10, 2026·
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Critical◐Partly contained
Fake Ledger Live app on Apple's Mac App Store stole about $9.5M in seed-phrase thefts
A fake Ledger Live app for macOS, published on Apple's App Store under the name 'Leva Heal Limited', asked users for their recovery phrase and drained about $9.5M from roughly 50 victims between 8 and 11 April 2026. Apple removed the app and terminated the developer account; KuCoin froze accounts used to launder part of the funds. Ledger's desktop app is only distributed from Ledger's own website, and no Ledger software ever asks for your recovery phrase.
Ledger users who installed 'Ledger Live' from the Mac App Store·Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, Solana·$9.5M stolen·Since Apr 8, 2026·
March 2026 5
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Solana wallet MCP server on PyPI sent users' private keys to a remote server
An advisory published on 31 March 2026 flagged latinum-wallet-mcp, a PyPI package that runs a Solana wallet as an MCP server for AI agents, as malicious. From version 0.0.32 it sent the wallet's private key, along with other metrics, to a remote server during wallet setup, and from 0.0.34 it added itself as an MCP server for Claude on import; none of this was in the public GitHub code. Versions 0.0.32 to 0.0.36 are listed as affected. Anyone who installed them should treat that Solana key as stolen and move funds to a new wallet.
latinum-wallet-mcp (PyPI)·Solana·Since Mar 31, 2026·
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Medium◐Partly contained
Five typosquatted npm packages hook Base58 decoding to steal Solana and Ethereum private keys
In March 2026, Cyber Press reported five malicious npm packages from the account 'galedonovan', aimed at crypto developers: raydium-bs58, base-x-64, bs58-basic, ethersproject-wallet and base_xd. The Solana packages intercept Base58 decode() calls used to load keypairs and send the private key in plain text to a Telegram bot, while the app keeps working normally. The Ethereum package hooks the Wallet constructor. base_xd was pulled within five minutes, but the other four were still live when the report came out. Developers who installed any of them should rotate keys and move funds.
npm packages raydium-bs58, base-x-64, bs58-basic, ethersproject-wallet, base_xd·Solana, Ethereum·Since Mar 26, 2026·
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Compromised LiteLLM releases on PyPI steal cloud keys and crypto wallet data from AI developers
On 24 March 2026 attackers tracked as TeamPCP published LiteLLM 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 to PyPI with hidden code that runs on import, and in 1.82.8 whenever Python starts. LiteLLM is a popular open-source gateway that AI apps and agents use to reach many LLM providers, with over 3.4 million downloads a day. The payload collected SSH keys, cloud credentials, Kubernetes secrets, .env files and crypto wallet data and sent them to a lookalike domain. Both versions were removed; anyone who installed them should rotate secrets and move funds from wallets on affected machines.
LiteLLM on PyPI·Multiple EVM chains·Since Mar 24, 2026·
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Critical✓Contained
Resolv's USR stablecoin depegs after attacker uses a compromised signing key to mint 80M unbacked tokens
On 21 March 2026 an attacker obtained a privileged private key used by Resolv's off-chain minting service, deposited about $100K-$200K in USDC and minted about 80M USR, which the contracts did not cap. They swapped out for about 11,408 ETH, roughly $24.5M, and USR fell to about 26 cents. Resolv paused its app, offered the attacker a 10% bounty and asked holders not to trade USR while it works on recovery.
Resolv Labs USR stablecoin and holders·Ethereum·$25M stolen·Since Mar 21, 2026·
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High◐Partly contained
Bonk.fun domain hijacked to serve wallet drainer behind fake terms-of-service prompt
On Mar 11, 2026, attackers who had hijacked a Bonk.fun team account put a wallet drainer on the Solana launchpad's official domain. Visitors were asked to sign a fake terms-of-service message, and those who signed had their wallets drained. The team called losses minimal; SlowMist's database puts them at about $30,000. Only people who signed the fake message on the domain after the hijack were affected. If you signed it, move remaining funds to a new wallet.
Bonk.fun launchpad users·Solana·$30K stolen·Since Mar 11, 2026·
February 2026 7
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Claude-assisted commit adds a North Korea-linked wallet-stealing npm package to an AI crypto trading agent
ReversingLabs reported on 29 April 2026 that a 28 February commit to openpaw-graveyard, an autonomous crypto trading agent built for Solana, was co-authored by Claude Opus and added a bait package (@solana-launchpad/sdk) that silently pulled in the malicious @validate-sdk/v2. The payload steals .env and JSON files and crypto wallet credentials, and adds attacker SSH keys for remote access. ReversingLabs ties the campaign, 60+ packages and 300+ versions over about seven months, to North Korea's Famous Chollima and believes it deliberately targets AI coding agents. No losses were reported; check lockfiles for the named packages and rotate keys on affected machines.
AI trading agent projects and Web3 developers on npm·Solana·Since Feb 28, 2026·
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Arkanix stealer, likely built with LLM help, targeted crypto wallets before its makers shut it down
Kaspersky analysed Arkanix, a malware-as-a-service info-stealer advertised on dark-web forums and Discord from October 2025, as Security Affairs reported on 24 February 2026. It took crypto wallet data, with paid builds offering injection into Exodus and Atomic wallets, along with browser passwords, cookies, Telegram sessions and Discord logins. Kaspersky says the code shows probable traces of LLM-assisted development, and the operators shut the project down about two months after launch. No victim counts or losses were published.
People infected with the Arkanix stealer (Exodus, Atomic and browser wallet users)·Multiple EVM chains·Since Feb 24, 2026·
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AI trading agent Lobstar Wilde sends about $250K in tokens to an X user who asked it for 4 SOL
On 22 February 2026 Lobstar Wilde, an experimental AI trading agent with its own Solana wallet built by an OpenAI developer, answered an X reply asking for 4 SOL for a relative's medical treatment. Instead of a small amount it sent about 53 million LOBSTAR tokens, roughly 5% of supply and about $250,000 at the time, and the recipient sold them. The bot called it an accident; a decimal error was suggested by an X user but not confirmed by the creator. Agents that can send funds in response to public replies need hard per-transfer caps and human approval.
Lobstar Wilde, an experimental AI trading agent on X·Solana·$250K stolen·Since Feb 22, 2026·
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Critical◐Partly contained
IoTeX ioTube bridge drained of about $4.4M after attacker abused a compromised employee machine
On 21 February 2026 an attacker who had compromised an IoTeX employee's machine, reportedly through social engineering, upgraded the ioTube bridge's Ethereum-side Validator contract to a malicious version. That let them drain about $4.4M in bridge reserves (WBTC, ETH, USDC, USDT, DAI and others) and mint 410M CIOTX. IoTeX froze about 45M IOTX in attacker wallets, paused its chain for three days and opened a claims portal for affected users.
IoTeX ioTube bridge (Ethereum side)·Ethereum·$4.4M stolen·Since Feb 21, 2026·
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North Korea's UNC1069 used an apparent deepfake CEO on a fake Zoom call to infect a crypto fintech
Mandiant reported on 9 February 2026 an intrusion at a crypto-sector fintech that began with a message from a crypto executive's hijacked Telegram account and a Calendly invite to a spoofed Zoom meeting. On the call the victim saw what appeared to be a deepfake of another crypto company's CEO, was told their audio was broken and was talked into running 'troubleshooting' commands (ClickFix). Those commands installed seven malware families on macOS that collect credentials, browser and Telegram data to enable crypto theft. Mandiant tied it to the North Korea-linked group UNC1069 and reported no stolen amount.
Crypto and DeFi fintech staff on macOS·Multiple EVM chains·Since Feb 9, 2026·
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Medium◐Partly contained
Hijacked Arbitrum DAO X account posts fake 'snapshot confirmed' airdrop linking to phishing site
On 3 February 2026 attackers took over Arbitrum DAO's official governance account on X (@arbitrumdao_gov) and posted a fake 'Arbitrum snapshot confirmed' airdrop linking to gov-arbitrum[.]com, a lookalike site with a 'Connect Wallet' prompt. Arbitrum told users not to click links from the account and said the protocol and funds were not affected. No losses had been reported at the time.
Arbitrum DAO followers on X·Arbitrum·Since Feb 3, 2026·
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Low✓Contained
SPL token-account ownership reassignment used to fake deposits at a Solana custodian
In February 2026 Liminal Custody's monitoring caught two low-value attempts that used SetAuthority to reassign an attacker's temporary SPL token account to a customer's deposit address after a net-zero transfer, so systems that look up owners through RPC could credit a deposit that never happened. Liminal says no erroneous credit occurred and no customer funds were affected. Exchanges, custodians and payment apps on Solana should verify the expected associated token account and real balance increases before crediting.
Liminal Custody Solana deposit monitoring (custodian, exchange-style deposit addresses)·Solana·Since Feb 1, 2026·
January 2026 8
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Critical✓Contained
Step Finance treasury wallets drained of about $40M; Solana platform later shuts down
On Jan 31, 2026, Step Finance reported a breach of some of its treasury wallets. CertiK saw 261,854 SOL (about $27 million) unstaked and transferred, and Step later put the total near $40 million. SlowMist's hack database classifies the cause as a private key leak. Step, SolanaFloor and Remora Markets announced a wind-down on Feb 23, 2026, with a STEP buyback based on a pre-hack snapshot and a USDC redemption process for Remora rToken holders. Holders should use only official Step channels for the buyback and redemption.
Step Finance treasury and fee wallets·Solana·$40M stolen·Since Jan 31, 2026·
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Critical✕Still active
Investor sends 4,556 ETH ($12.25M) to a poisoned lookalike address planted months earlier
On 30 January 2026 a victim sent 4,556 ETH, about $12.25M, to a lookalike of a regular counterparty's address. The attacker had seeded it into the victim's history with fake token transfers from February 2025 and ETH dust from October 2025; it matched the real address's first and last four characters. About 33 minutes later the ETH was swept to a new wallet, and the next day all of it went into Tornado Cash. Scam Sniffer flagged the loss.
Ethereum whale wallet·Ethereum·$12M stolen·Since Jan 30, 2026·
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North Korea-linked KONNI targets blockchain developers with an AI-generated PowerShell backdoor
Check Point Research reported on 22 January 2026 that the North Korea-linked group KONNI, long focused on South Korean government targets, is now going after developers and engineering teams on blockchain and crypto projects. Phishing lures dressed up as project documentation deliver a PowerShell backdoor that Check Point calls AI-generated, with activity seen in Japan, Australia and India. A compromised developer can expose source code, infrastructure and blockchain credentials. No losses were reported.
Blockchain and crypto developers and engineering teams (Asia-Pacific)·Multiple EVM chains·Since Jan 22, 2026·
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High✕Still active
Hijacked Snap Store publisher accounts push fake Exodus, Ledger Live and Trust Wallet apps
SlowMist reported that attackers re-registered expired domains belonging to established Linux Snap Store publishers, reset the publisher accounts, and pushed updates that turned trusted apps into fake Exodus, Ledger Live and Trust Wallet clients. The fake apps ask for the wallet recovery phrase and send it to the attackers. Linux users who installed wallet apps from the Snap Store should check the publisher and never type a recovery phrase into a desktop app. No loss total was published.
Linux users installing wallet apps from the Snap Store·Bitcoin, Multiple EVM chains·Since Jan 21, 2026·
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Critical✓Contained
Meteora loses $1.5M USDC to fake OTC escrow in double-impersonation scam
On Jan 17, 2026, the Solana DEX Meteora sent $1.5 million in USDC to what it believed was a trusted escrow wallet for an OTC buyback of its MET token. Scammers had impersonated the seller to Meteora and Meteora to the seller, so the 'escrow' address was theirs. The funds were reportedly moved through KuCoin. No smart contract was exploited and no user funds were involved. Meteora disclosed the loss in its Q1 2026 token holder report. Teams doing OTC deals should confirm counterparties and escrow addresses over a separate, known channel.
Meteora treasury (OTC buyback of MET)·Solana·$1.5M stolen·Since Jan 17, 2026·
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High✕Still active
Ethereum user loses $514K in USDT to address poisoning two minutes after a test transfer
On 16 January 2026 a victim sent a 5,000 USDT test transfer and, two minutes later, 509,000 USDT to a lookalike Ethereum address planted by an address-poisoning scammer, a total loss of about $514,000. The intended address ended in D3E6F; the fake ended in f3e6F and differed only in the middle characters wallets usually hide. Cyvers flagged the theft.
Ethereum USDT holder·Ethereum·$514K stolen·Since Jan 16, 2026·
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High✓Contained
Polycule, a Telegram trading bot for Polymarket, hacked for about $230K of user funds
Polycule, a Telegram bot for trading on Polymarket, confirmed on 13 Jan 2026 that it had been hacked and that about $230,000 of user funds held in bot-managed Polygon wallets was taken. The team took the bot offline and promised a patch and compensation; no official root cause was published, and some rivals called it a rug pull. Custodial Telegram bots keep users' private keys on their own servers, so one breach can drain every user at once. Keep only small trading balances in any bot wallet.
Polycule Telegram trading bot users (Polymarket, Polygon)·Polygon·$230K stolen·Since Jan 13, 2026·
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Critical✓Contained
User loses $1.08M in Aave LBTC (aEthLBTC) to a malicious permit signature
A user lost about 12 aEthLBTC (Aave's wrapped LBTC position on Ethereum), worth about $1.08 million, after signing a malicious permit signature, Scam Sniffer flagged on 3 January 2026. The thieves swapped the funds to ETH and sent them through Tornado Cash; SlowMist's founder said the group was not one of the mainstream drainer crews. Holders of Aave aTokens and other permit-enabled tokens should check what they sign and revoke unknown spenders.
An Aave aEthLBTC holder·Ethereum·$1.1M stolen·Since Jan 3, 2026·
December 2025 4
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Medium✕Still active? Unverified
'Axiom Bookmark Method' drains trend on X, with claims of a trader losing over $200K
In late December 2025, X users warned that scammers were luring Axiom traders with fake tools such as token checkers and getting them to drag a bookmark into the browser, which ran on the logged-in Axiom page and gave the scammer access to the victim's funds. An X trending summary headlined the scam as draining over $200,000, and one widely viewed warning post said a person the author knew had recently fallen for it and asked Axiom to patch it. No security firm, news outlet or Axiom statement confirming the amount was found. Axiom users should never run a bookmark someone gives them and should move funds if they did.
Axiom trading terminal users·Solana·Since Dec 26, 2025·
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Trojanized Trust Wallet Chrome extension v2.68 steals seed phrases; $8.5M drained from 2,520 wallets
A malicious version 2.68 of the Trust Wallet browser extension was published to the Chrome Web Store on Dec 24, 2025 with a leaked store API key, skipping the normal release review. It harvested seed phrases through a modified analytics library and sent them to metrics-trustwallet[.]com. Early reports put losses near $7M; Trust Wallet's post-mortem says about $8.5M was drained from 2,520 wallet addresses across BTC, ETH and SOL, and traces the leak to the Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm. The fixed v2.69 shipped on Dec 25 and Trust Wallet says it will reimburse affected users; mobile app users were not affected.
Trust Wallet Chrome extension v2.68·Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum·$8.5M stolen·Since Dec 24, 2025·
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Trader loses nearly $50M in USDT to address poisoning after copying a lookalike address from history
On 20 December 2025 a trader sent a 50 USDT test to the correct address, then 26 minutes later sent 49,999,950 USDT on Ethereum to a lookalike address the attacker had planted in their transaction history. The fake matched the first five and last four characters of the real address. Within 30 minutes the funds were swapped to DAI, then to about 16,690 ETH, and almost all of it went into Tornado Cash. Always check the full address, not just the start and end.
Ethereum USDT holder (funds withdrawn from Binance)·Ethereum·$50M stolen·Since Dec 20, 2025·
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Ethereum user loses $440K in USDC after signing a malicious permit
An Ethereum user lost $440,358 in USDC after signing a malicious ERC-20 permit signature, Scam Sniffer reported on 8 December 2025. A permit is an off-chain signature that lets another address spend your tokens, so no on-chain approval appears before the theft. Anyone who signs permit requests on unfamiliar sites is at risk; check the spender and amount before signing and revoke unknown permissions.
An Ethereum USDC holder·Ethereum·$440K stolen·Since Dec 8, 2025·
November 2025 4
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Upbit loses about $36M as Solana hot wallet is drained; Lazarus suspected
On Nov 27, 2025, South Korea's largest exchange Upbit disclosed irregular withdrawals that drained roughly $36 million in Solana-network tokens from a hot wallet. Upbit froze the affected wallets, moved remaining funds to cold storage, said cold wallets were not breached and pledged to reimburse customers in full. South Korean authorities suspect North Korea's Lazarus Group, according to Yonhap, and CertiK said it tracked over 100 exploiter addresses on Solana. How the attackers got signing access has not been explained publicly. Customers did not need to act, but should treat any 'Upbit refund' message as phishing.
Upbit exchange Solana hot wallet·Solana·$36M stolen·Since Nov 27, 2025·
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Aerodrome and Velodrome front-ends hijacked via DNS, cloned sites serve Eleven Drainer
On 21 November 2025 an attacker changed the DNS records for aerodrome.finance and velodrome.finance, sending visitors to a cloned front-end running 'Eleven Drainer' code. Users who signed on the fake site lost tokens: Blockaid tied about $700K to nine attacker addresses, and Halborn put losses above $1M. The smart contracts were not touched. Anyone who signed on either site that evening should revoke approvals they don't recognise.
Aerodrome (Base) and Velodrome (Optimism) web app users·Base, Optimism·$700K stolen·Since Nov 21, 2025·
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DMT token airdrop promoted by @dexmaxai tied to $130K phishing loss on Solana
SlowMist's hack database lists a $130,000 phishing loss on Nov 20, 2025, filed under Solana, tied to the DMT token airdrop promoted by the X account @dexmaxai. The airdrop claim was the lure for the phishing. If you claimed DMT, check your wallet for token delegations or unexpected outgoing transfers and move what is left to a new wallet.
DMT airdrop claimants (@dexmaxai)·Solana·$130K stolen·Since Nov 20, 2025·
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Whale's 1-of-1 Safe multisig drained of $27M+ after key compromise, ETH laundered via Tornado Cash
A private whale's Gnosis Safe on Ethereum, set up so a single signature could approve transactions, was taken over and drained of about $27.3M according to PeckShield; Hacken's forensics say losses may exceed $40M. Ownership passed to the attacker six minutes after the Safe was created on 4 November 2025, and the thief laundered ETH through Tornado Cash in batches while slowly unwinding a leveraged Aave position. A multisig with one signer is only as safe as that one key.
Private whale's Gnosis Safe multisig (Ethereum)·Ethereum·$27M stolen·Since Nov 4, 2025·
October 2025 1
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Kaspersky: North Korea's BlueNoroff uses generative AI to speed up malware in GhostCall and GhostHire crypto attacks
Kaspersky disclosed on 28 October 2025 two BlueNoroff campaigns aimed at Web3 and crypto organisations in India, Turkey, Australia and other countries in Europe and Asia, active since at least April 2025. GhostCall reaches executives and founders on Telegram with fake investor meetings, where an 'audio fix' installs malware; GhostHire sends blockchain developers fake job tests in GitHub repositories that hide malware. Kaspersky says generative AI has helped the group develop malware faster, and the payloads include crypto stealers. No loss figures were given.
Web3 and crypto executives, founders and blockchain developers·Multiple EVM chains·Since Oct 28, 2025·
September 2025 1
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THORChain co-founder loses about $1.35M after a fake Zoom call showing a deepfake of a friend
In early September 2025 THORChain co-founder John-Paul Thorbjornsen got a Zoom link from a friend's hacked Telegram account, joined in his browser and, by his account, saw a deepfake of his friend with no sound before leaving. An old MetaMask wallet of his was later drained of about $1.35M in Kyber Network and THORSwap tokens (PeckShield valued it at about $1.2M); he believes the key was reached through iCloud Keychain or a zero-day. ZachXBT attributed the theft to North Korean hackers, and THORChain said the protocol itself was not affected.
THORChain co-founder's personal wallet·Ethereum·$1.4M stolen·Since Sep 4, 2025·
August 2025 3
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Compromised Nx npm packages ran victims' AI command-line tools to hunt for wallet and keystore files
Around 26 August 2025 malicious versions of Nx, a widely used JavaScript build tool, were published to npm and stole GitHub and npm tokens on install. The malware also looked for installed AI command-line tools (Claude, Gemini and Amazon Q) and ran them to search the disk for crypto wallet and keystore files, .env files and SSH keys, then published the results to repos in the victim's own GitHub account. Wiz counted over 1,700 users with leaked secrets and over 6,700 private repos made public, but saw no successful crypto theft, partly because the AI tools often refused. Anyone who installed the bad versions should rotate tokens and move funds from wallet files on that machine.
Nx build system on npm·Multiple EVM chains·Since Aug 26, 2025·
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Malicious 'contractshark.solidity-lang' Cursor extension steals an Ethereum core developer's private key
Cointelegraph reported on 13 August 2025 that an Ethereum core developer's hot wallet was drained after he installed 'contractshark.solidity-lang', a fake Solidity extension for the Cursor AI code editor with over 54,000 downloads. The extension read his .env file and sent the private key to the attacker, who waited three days before emptying the wallet. The loss was a few hundred dollars because he kept only test funds there and his main holdings on hardware wallets. Keep keys out of .env files on development machines and use small, separate test wallets.
Cursor AI code editor users·Ethereum·Since Aug 13, 2025·
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YouTube 'MEV bot' tutorials, some AI-generated, tricked users into deploying drainer contracts; $900K+ taken
SentinelLABS reported in August 2025 that scammers use YouTube tutorials to get people to deploy a 'free' Ethereum arbitrage bot contract through Remix, fund it with ETH and press Start. Hidden code sends the ETH to an attacker wallet, and the top attacker address alone received 244.9 ETH (about $902,000). The videos ran on aged channels with manipulated comments, and SentinelLABS says several appear to be AI-generated. Versions of the scam have run since at least early 2024 and were described as ongoing.
Ethereum users following YouTube 'MEV bot' tutorials·Ethereum·$900K stolen·Since Aug 5, 2025·
July 2025 2
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AI-written npm package @kodane/patch-manager drained Solana wallets after 1,500+ downloads
On 28 July 2025 an npm package called @kodane/patch-manager, posing as a license-validation and registry cache tool for Node.js, was published with a hidden wallet drainer in its install script. Once installed it looked for crypto wallets on Windows, macOS and Linux and sent the funds to a Solana address, leaving just enough for fees. It was downloaded more than 1,500 times before npm flagged it on 30 July; Safety, which found it, said the code appears to be largely AI-generated. No total loss was published.
npm package @kodane/patch-manager·Solana·Since Jul 28, 2025·
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Fake Solidity extension for the Cursor AI code editor leads to about $500K crypto theft from a developer
Kaspersky reported on 10 July 2025 that a blockchain developer lost about $500,000 in crypto after installing a fake Solidity extension in Cursor, an AI code editor built on VS Code that gets extensions from the Open VSX registry. The extension gave no Solidity support; it installed ScreenConnect remote-access software, then the Quasar backdoor and a stealer that took browser, email and wallet data, including seed phrases. The attackers used the seed phrases to drain the developer's wallets. Developers should vet editor extensions and never keep seed phrases or funded keys on a coding machine.
Cursor AI code editor users (Open VSX extensions)·Multiple EVM chains·$500K stolen·Since Jul 10, 2025·
June 2025 2
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Phishing campaign used the AI site builder Lovable to fake Aave and push wallet connections
Proofpoint reported on 20 August 2025 that criminals were using Lovable, an AI website builder that makes sites from text prompts, to create and host phishing and wallet-drainer pages. In June 2025 nearly 10,000 emails sent through SendGrid led to a Lovable-built app that redirected to a fake Aave site asking people to connect a crypto wallet; Proofpoint said the likely aim was to steal assets from any connected wallet. Lovable removed a phishing cluster and added real-time checks after the report. No loss figures were published.
Aave and other DeFi users receiving fake reward emails·Multiple EVM chains·Since Jun 17, 2025·
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North Korea's BlueNoroff used deepfaked executives on a Zoom call to infect a crypto foundation employee's Mac
Huntress reported on 18 June 2025 that an employee of a cryptocurrency foundation was contacted on Telegram, sent a Calendly invite and led to a fake Zoom domain. Weeks later the employee joined a group call that contained several deepfakes of the company's senior leadership; when 'audio problems' came up, they were told to install a Zoom extension that was really a malicious AppleScript. It installed a set of macOS backdoors, a keylogger and screen recorder, and a crypto-wallet stealer called CryptoBot. Huntress did not say whether funds were stolen.
Crypto foundation staff on macOS·Multiple EVM chains·Since Jun 11, 2025·
May 2025 1
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Deepfake Zoom calls of Polygon's co-founder push malware to startup founders from a hijacked Telegram account
On 13 May 2025 Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal warned that attackers had taken over the Telegram account of the head of Polygon Ventures and were messaging startup founders in its network. Targets were invited to Zoom calls showing AI-generated video of Nailwal and other team members with no audio, and were urged to install an 'SDK' to fix the sound, which would infect their computers. No losses were reported. Do not install software during a call, even when the people on screen look like contacts you know.
Startup founders in Polygon's investment network·Multiple EVM chains·Since May 13, 2025·
March 2025 1
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Attacker breaches AIXBT AI agent's dashboard and queues prompts that send 55.5 ETH from its wallet
On 18 March 2025 an attacker got into the dashboard of AIXBT, an autonomous AI crypto agent, and queued two prompts that made it transfer about 55.5 ETH (about $106,200) out of its wallet on Base. The maintainer said core systems were not affected and the AI itself was not manipulated; the weak point was access to the agent's control dashboard. Keys were swapped, dashboard access was paused and the attacker's addresses were reported to exchanges. Anyone running an AI agent with a wallet should lock down its control panel and cap what it can send.
AIXBT AI agent wallet·Base·$106K stolen·Since Mar 18, 2025·
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