#walletdraining

Victims lose $70k to one single wallet-draining app on Google’s Play Store

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September 26, 2024 at 10:20AM A recent attack drained $70,000 from cryptocurrency wallets through a fraudulent app called WalletConnect on Google’s Play Store. The app, posing as the legitimate WalletConnect protocol, targeted web3 users and captured details of victims’ wallets, blockchain, and known addresses. Despite being removed five months later, the incident underlines the need … Read more

Monero Project admits thieves stole 6-figure sum from a wallet in mystery breach

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November 8, 2023 at 06:52AM Monero Project’s community crowdfunding system (CCS) wallet was drained of 2,675.73 XMR, amounting to around $437,000, in September. The project suspects that the breach is related to ongoing wallet-draining attacks since April. The team is investigating the breach and has taken additional security measures to protect other wallets. Atomic Wallet … Read more