{"id":69148,"date":"2022-10-26T16:56:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=69148"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:16:36","slug":"researcher-accuses-monkey-drainer-phishing-scammers-of-1m-cryptocurrency-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/researcher-accuses-monkey-drainer-phishing-scammers-of-1m-cryptocurrency-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher accuses Monkey Drainer phishing scammers of $1m cryptocurrency theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In total over 24 hours, the scam group known as Monkey Drainer stole roughly $1 million in crypto assets via phishing, according to an on-chain researcher going by ZachXBT.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">1\/ Over the past 24 hrs ~700 ETH ($1m) has been stolen by the phishing scammer known as Monkey Drainer. <\/p>\n<p>They recently surpassed 7300 transactions from their drainer wallet after being around for only a few months. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/6vAYBiqCxQ\\\">pic.twitter.com\/6vAYBiqCxQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZachXBT (@zachxbt) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1584955933452484613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">October 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A significant portion of the losses was borne by two Ethereum wallets ending in 0x02a and 0x626.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\\&#8221;In total they lost $370,000 by signing transactions on malicious phishing sites operated by Monkey Drainer,\\&#8221; the expert noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-conversation=\\\"none\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">2\/ The two largest victims over the past day include 0x02a &#038; 0x626 who collectively lost $370k from signing transactions on malicious phishing sites operated by monkey drainer such as the ones below. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/HRwmP08UWn\\\">pic.twitter.com\/HRwmP08UWn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZachXBT (@zachxbt) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1584955940041654272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">October 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The examples of malicious online platforms he cited attracted users with fake airdrops currently in the spotlight of projects like Aptos and RTFKT.<\/p>\n<p>Another victim lost 14 NFTs, including tokens from top collections BAYC and CloneX, as well as 36,000 USDC. The total value of stolen assets was about $150,000, noted ZachXBT.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, &#8216;fortunately,&#8217; some transactions were rejected by the network, as the scammer addresses had been flagged.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-conversation=\\\"none\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">4\/ Victim 0x626 held over ~$6.2m worth of crypto at the time but managed to only lose $220k.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily they rejected the other transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Chainabuse Report:<a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/XqHibeBAxU\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/XqHibeBAxU<\/a> <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/LDotXCziYf\\\">pic.twitter.com\/LDotXCziYf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZachXBT (@zachxbt) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1584955952784060416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">October 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The total amount stolen by the group exceeds $3.5 million and is rising by the day, the expert noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\\&#8221;Please be extra diligent before visiting unknown sites, connecting your wallet, and signing transactions,\\&#8221; urged the expert.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">6\/ Please be extra diligent before visiting unknown sites, connecting your wallet, and signing transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Am still away on holiday for another week or so but wanted to get this post out as my bot notifications have been blowing up from this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZachXBT (@zachxbt) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1584955961390735360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">October 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Chainalysis, October 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-october-sets-a-new-record-for-hacker-losses\">broke an all-time high in the amount of cryptocurrency stolen by hackers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In total over 24 hours, the scam group known as Monkey Drainer stole roughly $1 million in crypto assets via phishing, according to an on-chain researcher going by ZachXBT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69149,"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":[1154],"class_list":["post-69148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"36","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69150,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69148\/revisions\/69150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}