In the phishing crime tool Pink Drainer, which announced the closure of its services in May this year, the relevant address was found to have encountered a "zero U address poisoning" trap in a transaction at the end of June, and 10 ETH (currently worth about US$30,000) was stolen.
Pink Drainer was phished for $30,000
The encrypted tracking platform MistTrack pointed out in a tweet yesterday that the phishing tool Pink Drainer, which is widely used by criminals but has been shut down, was found to have been accidentally included in the zero transfer attack (in simplified Chinese: "zero U address investment" in recent financial activities). poison").
The platform said that addresses associated with Pink Drainer appear to have fallen victim this time, losing 10 ETH (now about $30,000) in the zero-transfer attack:
"Zero transfer attack" means that the attacker fakes a wallet that is very similar to the target's commonly used wallet address, and the first and last few alphanumeric digits are almost the same.
It added, "The purpose of this move is to deceive the target, allowing users to copy the false address without fully checking it when transferring funds, and mistakenly send funds to the wrong wallet."
As can be seen in the picture above, the fake address imitated the first and last six characters and successfully fooled Pink Drainer.
Pink Drainer announces lights out
On May 17 this year, Pink Drainer announced on its official Telegram that it would cease operations, claiming that after successfully stealing $75 million within a year, it would permanently shut down and delete the entire chat room record:
After this news is released, we will begin to gradually close all tool resources and communication channels, and all information will be deleted and safely destroyed.
Dune data shows that Pink Drainer has been booming since July 2023, and has gained considerable income in the market where currency prices increased from March to May this year. So far, it has more than 21,000 victims and has stolen a total of nearly 8,530 funds. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.
Last November, another phishing tool, Inferno Drainer, also shut down after helping to steal $80 million.
(Earn 80 million mg! Fishing tool Inferno Drainer announces closure: nothing lasts forever)
However, even though Pink Drainer has ceased operations, there are still other notorious phishing tool services, including Venom Drainer, Angel Drainer, and Pussy Drainer.
Users need to beware of "zero transfer attacks"
Faced with the ever-changing methods of criminals to steal funds, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has also been attacked by zero transfers. The exchange Binance even almost lost tens of millions of dollars as a result. Lian News also reminded readers that they must be careful when transferring money. Expand the address correctly and see the content clearly. Do not just confirm the beginning and end of the address.
(ZeroTransfer scam! Don’t just look at the head and tail of the encrypted wallet address, Changpeng Zhao CZ reminds: Binance Insurance was defrauded of 20 million US dollars (Zero U address poisoning))
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