{"id":15300,"date":"2024-07-17T18:28:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/angel-drainer-ceases-operations-following-organisers-exposure\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T18:28:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T15:28:44","slug":"angel-drainer-ceases-operations-following-organisers-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/angel-drainer-ceases-operations-following-organisers-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Drainer Ceases Operations Following Organisers&#8217; Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crypto-phishing service Angel Drainer has halted its operations after cybersecurity researchers from Match Systems identified its organisers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">? Deanonymization of Angel Drainer Members! ?<\/p>\n<p>We are actively working on investigating the thefts involving Angel Drainer and have already made progress in identifying the individuals behind this group.<\/p>\n<p>?\ufe0f\u200d\u2642\ufe0f Who are Angel Drainer?<br \/>Angel Drainer is a criminal gang that has\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UEzRS7kR9Q\">pic.twitter.com\/UEzRS7kR9Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Match Systems (@MatchSystems) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatchSystems\/status\/1813240526977593467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Experts from the company stated they are investigating thefts involving Angel Drainer and promised assistance to the victims of the malware.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cTwo hours after our publication on the deanonymization of the drainer&#8217;s participants, their Telegram channel announced that the service had been stopped,\u201d they wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-descr=\"Drainer-as-a-Service\u00a0\" class=\"old_tooltip\">DaaS<\/span> platform Angel Drainer emerged around August 2023. It offers tools for stealing cryptocurrencies for a 20% commission and an initial deposit ranging from $5,000 to $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to experts from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/blockaid_\/status\/1754589237956292786\">Blockaid<\/a>, the drainer has stolen over $25 million from 35,000 users in total. It has been linked to attacks on Ledger Connect Kit and EigenLayer.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May, the phishing service Pink Drainer, which targeted cryptocurrency wallets, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cybersecurity-highlights-pink-drainers-closure-fbis-breachforums-seizure-and-more\">announced<\/a> its closure. In early July, the hackers behind its development suffered from an \u201caddress poisoning\u201d attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crypto-phishing service Angel Drainer has halted its operations after cybersecurity researchers from Match Systems identified its organisers.\u00a0 ? Deanonymization of Angel Drainer Members! ? We are actively working on investigating the thefts involving Angel Drainer and have already made progress in identifying the individuals behind this group. ?\ufe0f\u200d\u2642\ufe0f Who are Angel Drainer?Angel Drainer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-15300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"178","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}