{"id":84128,"date":"2023-09-07T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=84128"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:29:17","slug":"market-maker-loses-about-24m-in-phishing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/market-maker-loses-about-24m-in-phishing-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Market maker loses about $24m in phishing attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 September, a user was targeted by a phishing attack, resulting in the loss of 9,579 stETH (~$15.6m) and 4,850 rETH (~$8.5m).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-09-07-v-12.05.58.webp\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-09-07-v-12.05.58\" class=\"wp-image-215303\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realScamSniffer\/status\/1699605356740305198\">X<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is probably the largest single-wallet hack carried out using private-data-tracking software in history.<\/p>\n<p>The victim granted approval to the attacker by signing an &#8216;increaseAllowance&#8217; transaction. The attacker has already converted the stolen funds into ETH and DAI and transferred them to several addresses.<\/p>\n<p>The affected address has a long trading history and is a major market maker. The address supplied liquidity on Uniswap v3 for the WBTC\/USDT pair worth more than $1.6 million. It has also engaged with protocols such as Aave, 1inch, Curve, OMG, EOS and others.  <\/p>\n<p>According to Scam Sniffer analysts, the hacker&#8217;s wallet is associated with many phishing sites.  <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, journalists <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/journalists-uncover-metamask-targeted-phishing-scheme\">warned<\/a>, that attackers began using URLs of government websites of several countries to deceive users of the non-custodial crypto wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-metamask\">MetaMask<\/a> and steal their assets. <\/p>\n<p>In August, unknown <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dex-cypher-loses-1-million-in-hack\">attacked<\/a> the Solana-based decentralized exchange Cypher and withdrew around $1 million in cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the yield aggregator Zunami Protocol <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/defi-protocol-zunami-loses-2-1-million-in-exploit\">was hacked<\/a>, resulting in the loss of digital assets worth $2.1 million. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 September, a phishing attack led to the loss of 9,579 stETH (~$15.6m) and 4,850 rETH (~$8.5m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-84128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84128","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=84128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84130,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84128\/revisions\/84130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}