Fishing fraudster managed to kidnap the cryptocurrency per day on $1 million – Bits Media

ZACHXBT blockchain security specialist reported, that the whole hacker under the nickname Monkey Draainer stole digital assets on $3.5 million.

According to the analyst of cryptocurrencies zachxbt, Only in the last day the criminal abducted about 700 ethers. His two largest victims, users 0x02a and 0x626, Lost a total of $370 000 After signing transactions on phishing sites, used to lure the victims. 0X02A lost one NFT from the Bored Ape collection (BAYC), One Clonex, 36 000 US dollars and 12 other non -taxable tokens totaling about $ 150,000.

User 0x626, owning cryptocurrency in the amount of about $6.2 million, lost $220 000. The remaining transactions were rejected.

Zachxbt added, that the total amount of assets, Stolen by an attacker, exceeds $3.5 Milln and growing day by day. He urged users to show maximum vigilance when working with cryptocurrencies:

"Please, Be especially attentive, Before visiting unknown sites, Connect your wallet and sign transactions ".

Last week, French law enforcement agencies took advantage of the study,
conducted by a cryptocurrency analyst under the pseudonym Zachxbt, to arrest five suspects of fraud with NFT.