{ "tag": "drainer-kit", "name": "Drainer kits (drainer-as-a-service)", "group": "Drain methods", "incidents": [ { "slug": "noir-drainer-dns-txt-c2-oct-2026", "title": "Noir wallet drainer kit hides its backend behind DNS TXT records and DoH", "url": "https://drains.watch/i/noir-drainer-dns-txt-c2-oct-2026", "json": "https://drains.watch/i/noir-drainer-dns-txt-c2-oct-2026.json", "status": "live", "severity": "high", "threatStatus": "active", "verification": "verified", "ai": { "role": "ai-malware", "note": "Infoblox says it seems likely the Noir drainer kit is created and maintained with AI assistance, based on its verbose explanatory code comments, while noting a human could also have written it." }, "chains": [ "multi-evm" ], "method": "drainer-kit", "product": "Users of Uniswap, Lido, Hyperliquid, Polymarket and other brands targeted by Noir lure pages", "tags": [ "multi-evm", "drainer-kit", "drainer-as-a-service", "noir-drainer", "dns-txt", "doh", "cloudflare-pages", "netlify", "walletconnect", "fake-airdrop", "infoblox", "ai" ], "amountUsd": null, "victims": null, "startedAt": "2026-10-09", "closedAt": null, "updatedAt": "2026-10-22T21:53:35.016Z", "summary": "Infoblox Threat Intel described Noir on 9 October 2026, a wallet-drainer kit that looks up its backend pool through DNS TXT records over public DNS-over-HTTPS, so operators can repoint every lure page by changing one record. Lures impersonate CoinMarketCap, DexScreener, OKX, Uniswap, Lido, Hyperliquid, Morpho, Ondo, LayerZero, MegaETH, Polymarket and others with fake votes, airdrop checks and swap clones. It steals by getting token spending permissions, then cuts the WalletConnect session to hide the trail. Infoblox gave no loss figures and says the kit was likely AI-developed." }, { "slug": "inferno-angelferno-drainer-still-active-oct-2026", "title": "Report: Inferno/AngelFerno drainer still active in 2026, bought Purple Drainer in March", "url": "https://drains.watch/i/inferno-angelferno-drainer-still-active-oct-2026", "json": "https://drains.watch/i/inferno-angelferno-drainer-still-active-oct-2026.json", "status": "live", "severity": "critical", "threatStatus": "active", "verification": "verified", "chains": [ "multi-evm" ], "method": "drainer-kit", "product": "Web3 users targeted by Inferno/AngelFerno affiliate phishing sites and domain takeovers", "tags": [ "multi-evm", "drainer-kit", "drainer-as-a-service", "inferno-drainer", "angel-drainer", "angelferno", "purple-drainer", "permit2", "cloudflare-workers", "ransom-isac" ], "amountUsd": null, "victims": null, "startedAt": "2026-03-01", "closedAt": null, "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T12:00:00Z", "summary": "A Ransom-ISAC report published on 5 October 2026 says the Inferno drainer ecosystem, now branded AngelFerno after merging with Angel Drainer, was still running in summer 2026 with thousands of affiliates. It says AngelFerno announced it had bought Purple Drainer in March 2026, that its factory has deployed over 17,000 single-use drainer contracts, and that it targets 165 tokens on 11 EVM chains (with Solana, TRON, SUI and XRP variants). The report ties it to domain takeovers including CoW Protocol in April 2026 (about $1.2M lost) and notes a May 2026 key rotation that locked the operators out of their own command contract for about 23 days." } ], "changes": [ { "incident": "noir-drainer-dns-txt-c2-oct-2026", "incidentTitle": "Noir wallet drainer kit hides its backend behind DNS TXT records and DoH", "severity": "high", "status": "live", "threatStatus": "active", "date": "2026-10-09", "title": "Infoblox Threat Intel publishes its analysis of the Noir drainer kit and its DNS TXT based control channel.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.infoblox.com/blog/threat-intelligence/when-a-wallet-drainer-asks-dns-where-to-go/", "url": "https://drains.watch/i/noir-drainer-dns-txt-c2-oct-2026" }, { "incident": "inferno-angelferno-drainer-still-active-oct-2026", "incidentTitle": "Report: Inferno/AngelFerno drainer still active in 2026, bought Purple Drainer in March", "severity": "critical", "status": "live", "threatStatus": "active", "date": "2026-10-05", "title": "Ransom-ISAC publishes 'Inferno Drainer Is Burning Out', describing the ecosystem as still active.", "sourceUrl": "https://ransom-isac.org/blog/the-daas-formerly-known-as-inferno/", "url": "https://drains.watch/i/inferno-angelferno-drainer-still-active-oct-2026" }, { "incident": "inferno-angelferno-drainer-still-active-oct-2026", "incidentTitle": "Report: Inferno/AngelFerno drainer still active in 2026, bought Purple Drainer in March", "severity": "critical", "status": "live", "threatStatus": "active", "date": "2026-05-01", "title": "A key rotation locks the operators out of their own command contract for about 23 days (month reported; day not given).", "sourceUrl": "https://ransom-isac.org/blog/the-daas-formerly-known-as-inferno/", "url": "https://drains.watch/i/inferno-angelferno-drainer-still-active-oct-2026" }, { "incident": "inferno-angelferno-drainer-still-active-oct-2026", "incidentTitle": "Report: Inferno/AngelFerno drainer still active in 2026, bought Purple Drainer in March", "severity": "critical", "status": "live", "threatStatus": "active", "date": "2026-04-14", "title": "CoW Protocol domain takeover (April 2026; see cow-swap-dns-hijack-apr-2026), which the report links to the Inferno ecosystem, costs users about $1.2M over about 4.5 hours.", "sourceUrl": "https://ransom-isac.org/blog/the-daas-formerly-known-as-inferno/", "url": "https://drains.watch/i/inferno-angelferno-drainer-still-active-oct-2026" }, { "incident": "inferno-angelferno-drainer-still-active-oct-2026", "incidentTitle": "Report: Inferno/AngelFerno drainer still active in 2026, bought Purple Drainer in March", "severity": "critical", "status": "live", "threatStatus": "active", "date": "2026-03-01", "title": "AngelFerno announces it has acquired Purple Drainer (month reported; day not given).", "sourceUrl": "https://ransom-isac.org/blog/the-daas-formerly-known-as-inferno/", "url": "https://drains.watch/i/inferno-angelferno-drainer-still-active-oct-2026" } ] }