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Account Takeover

4 incidents, 1 live. 274 days since the last new one.

2 drains in the last 12 months

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  • Critical◐Partly contained

    Solana owner-permission phishing: OKX Wallet and Phantom add warnings after $3M loss

    A Solana wallet user signed a transaction from a disguised tool site that showed no balance change but moved the account's Owner permission to an attacker address starting GKJBEL. SlowMist reported over $3M lost, with about $2M in DeFi positions later recovered with protocol help. On 7 Jan 2026 OKX Wallet warned the technique was spreading across Solana, said it had added pre-signing warnings, and said Phantom had added similar alerts. Before signing, check for any instruction that changes an account owner or authority; normal wallets never ask you to change your own account's owner.

    Solana wallet user (single victim)·Solana·$3.0M stolen·Since Dec 5, 2025·

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January 2026 1

  • 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·

September 2025 1

  • Critical✕Still activeAI · AI lure

    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·

May 2025 1

  • Medium✕Still activeAI · AI lure

    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·

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