Ethereum
34 incidents, 9 live. 8 days since the last new one.
31 drains in the last 12 months
31 drains in the last 12 months
27 drains in 2026
7 drains in 2025
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Dormant EIP-7702 authorization used weeks later to drain an Ethereum wallet
On 14 October 2026 an attacker used an EIP-7702 authorization the victim had signed earlier to drain 9.1231 ETH (about $22,770) and TAPEETH rewards from an Ethereum wallet, ExVul reported. The attacker sponsored a type-4 transaction carrying the old signature, which made the victim's wallet run attacker code that claimed mining rewards and withdrew the ETH in one go. ExVul said the malicious delegation was still active afterwards and that TAPEETH and PodMining were not at fault. The case shows a 7702 signature can sit unused and be fired later.
An Ethereum wallet holding TAPEETH mining rewards·Ethereum·$23K stolen·Since Oct 14, 2026·
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Tampered Ledger wallets from an Asian reseller leak seed phrases; on-chain estimate puts losses near $102M
Ledger hardware wallets sold by CryptoBilis, a Southeast Asian reseller, had a hidden implant added after manufacture that read the 24-word recovery phrase during setup and sent it out over an LTE eSIM. Coordinated drains began on 9 October 2026 across TRON, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Solana and Bitcoin. Bitquery's on-chain estimate is about $102M from 324 wallets, and investigator Specter put it above $86M. Ledger has not confirmed a figure. Anyone who set up a Ledger bought from a third-party seller in the affected markets should move funds to a new seed made on a device bought direct.
Ledger hardware wallets (Nano X, Flex, Stax) bought from reseller CryptoBilis and some other third-party sellers·Tron, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Solana, Bitcoin·$102M stolen·Since Oct 9, 2026·
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Old Permit2 phishing approval used to drain $167K in LINK
Scam Sniffer flagged a user who lost $167,342 in LINK on Ethereum when an attacker used a phishing approval targeting Permit2 to move the tokens on 3 October 2026. The victim had signed the approval long before (Incrypted dates it to 18 August 2025), which shows a malicious approval can sit unused for weeks or months before the drain. Anyone who has signed unfamiliar approvals should review and revoke them now.
An Ethereum LINK holder·Ethereum·$167K stolen·Since Oct 3, 2026·
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Bitget hot and warm wallets drained of $387.5M after zero-day in third-party security appliances
Attackers exploited a zero-day in two third-party security appliances at exchange Bitget, moved on to its production wallet job server and used a custom withdrawal tool to drain hot and warm wallets on 24-25 September 2026. The confirmed loss is about $387.5 million (first reported as $351.6M) across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, BSC, Base and the XRP Ledger. Bitget's CEO blamed North Korean hackers, and Bitget said cold wallets and private keys were not compromised. Hacken's Q3 figures say about $387M was covered by Bitget's user protection fund.
Bitget exchange hot and warm wallets·Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, BNB Chain, Base·$388M stolen·Since Sep 24, 2026·
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SingularityNET bridge keys abused after cloud breach: 8.72M FET released, billions of tokens minted
An unauthorized party got into part of SingularityNET's cloud infrastructure and on 19-20 September 2026 used a compromised authorizer signature and NuNet's mint authority to release 8.72M FET from a bridge and mint about 2.3 billion AGIX, NTX, WMTX and CGV. Sixteen wallets, four labelled as SingularityNET or NuNet staff, were swept before the minting. Headlines cited $16.77M, but Rekt's transaction-level count found about $2.29M in sellable proceeds because most minted tokens could not be sold. Bridges and converters are offline and AGIX is being replaced, so holders should wait for official migration steps.
SingularityNET / ASI Alliance bridge and conversion contracts (also NuNet, Cogito, Rejuve and World Mobile tokens)·Ethereum, BNB Chain·$2.3M stolen·Since Sep 19, 2026·
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D'CENT app-wallet users drained of over $18M as compromised seeds hit XRP, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Tron
From 15 to 20 September 2026 thieves emptied at least 6,678 wallets created in the D'CENT mobile app in six waves, taking about 11.7M XRP, and kept draining after 21 September for a total above 12.4M XRP (over $18M per Protos). D'CENT's own disclosure also named Bitcoin, Tron and Ethereum, and the stolen XRP was moved to Ethereum through THORChain. The cause is compromised recovery phrases for wallets made in the app; how they leaked has not been explained. D'CENT says app-created wallets are vulnerable and tells users to make a new recovery phrase and move everything.
D'CENT mobile App Wallet users (wallets created in the app)·Ethereum, Tron, Bitcoin·$18M stolen·Since Sep 15, 2026·
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Over-permissioned Safe module abused to drain about $7.8M in rsETH; MEV bot front-runs the thief
On 15 September 2026 an attacker abused a custom Uniswap v4 liquidity module and a Multicall helper that an Ethereum Safe multisig owner had approved, pointing the wallet's position at a malicious pool and unwrapping about 2,882 rsETH (around $7.8M). Blockaid described it as abuse of module permissions on that one Safe, not a bug in Safe itself or a stolen owner key. MEV bot Yoink front-ran the attacker and took the funds, Kelp DAO froze that address within about two hours, and whether the funds come back is unresolved. Safe owners should audit every enabled module.
A user's Safe multisig with a custom Uniswap v4 liquidity module·Ethereum·$7.8M stolen·Since Sep 15, 2026·
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Whale drained of $25.6M in aWBTC, DAI, WBTC and ETH; same wallet lost $24M to phishing in 2023
On 12 August 2026 an unidentified whale lost about $25.6M, including about $6.3M in aWBTC, $5.1M in DAI, $4.7M in WBTC and $2.6M in ETH, according to PeckShield. Analyst Specter called it a phishing attack and PeckShield called it a hack; the exact method has not been published. The attacker swapped the funds into DAI and ETH across four addresses. The same wallet lost about $24.2M through malicious token approvals in September 2023.
Unidentified Ethereum whale wallet·Ethereum·$26M stolen·Since Aug 12, 2026·
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Crypto payments firm Triple-A loses $9.7M+ from hot wallets on Ethereum, Solana, TRON and TON
On Jul 24, 2026, on-chain analyst Specter flagged suspicious outflows from hot wallets of the crypto payment processor Triple-A, and PeckShield later estimated losses above $9.7 million. crypto.news lists Ethereum, Solana, TRON and TON as affected, with some reports adding Polygon and Arbitrum. The proceeds were gathered in an Ethereum address holding about 5,227 ETH. The cause had not been disclosed, and no evidence tied the breach to Triple-A's custody provider Fireblocks. Merchants and customers should rely only on Triple-A's official channels for updates.
Triple-A payment processor hot wallets·Solana, Ethereum, Tron·$9.7M stolen·Since Jul 24, 2026·
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September 2026 1
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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·
July 2026 1
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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·
June 2026 4
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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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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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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 3
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'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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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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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·
April 2026 3
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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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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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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 2
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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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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·
February 2026 1
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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·
January 2026 3
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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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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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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 3
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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 1
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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·
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 2
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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·
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