Jun 2024 - TURBO BOBO GORILLA Phishing Inferno Drainer - $1.55m (Global)
Gemini, Binance, Kraken customer. tokens including TURBO, BOBO, GORILLA, GROK, and SHRAP.
"In suspicious fund transfer, the victim's tokens are transferred to the attacker-controlled account. The attack is usually launched through social engineering, e.g., asking users to click a link to claim some rewards or AirDrop tokens."
"In this transaction, the TURBO token of the user (0x6435b) was transferred to the attacker (0xfc4ea). Since the attacker's account (0xfc4ea) was involved in several phishing scam incidents, we believe the user (0x6435b) was deceived into signing the approval transaction."
"lost ～$1.55M worth of tokens."
"Address 0x6435...1390 fallen victim to a phishing scheme, and lost ～$1.55M worth of tokens.
The phishing address points to #InfernoDrainer"
"In suspicious fund transfer, the victim's tokens are transferred to the attacker-controlled account. The attack is usually launched through social engineering, e.g., asking users to click a link to claim some rewards or AirDrop tokens."
"In this transaction, the TURBO token of the user (0x6435b) was transferred to the attacker (0xfc4ea). Since the attacker's account (0xfc4ea) was involved in several phishing scam incidents, we believe the user (0x6435b) was deceived into signing the approval transaction."
Further Analysis
Gemini, Binance, Kraken customer with address 0x6435...1390 fell victim to a phishing website and lost a significant number of tokens including TURBO, BOBO, GORILLA, GROK, and SHRAP. There is limited information about what happened, or anything which was done about a recovery.
How Could This Have Been Prevented?
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Sources/Further Reading
@ChainAegis Twitter (Dec 31)
ChainAegis (Dec 31)
Ethereum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Etherscan
(Dec 31)
https://metasleuth.io/result/eth/0x6435b50861c5895c82a0789c6f91b80561ec1390 (Dec 31)
List of Crypto Phishing Attacks - ImmuneBytes (Dec 31)
https://metasleuth.io/report/d980a3f5a8870d74b6fd8facfbe5f08b (Dec 31)
https://dexcheck.ai/app/wallet-analyzer/0x6435b50861c5895c82a0789c6f91b80561ec1390 (Dec 31)
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