Outstanding blockchain safety agency PeckshieldAlert and onchain sleuth Zachxbt revealed on Nov. 4 {that a} phishing scammer working below the pseudonym Monkey Drainer had stolen 7 Cryptopunks and 20 Otherdeed NFTs.
#PeckShieldAlert @zachxbt has detected that Monkey Drainer grabbed ~ 7 CryptoPunks & ~20 Otherdeed #NFT
0xc…466 has transferred ~120 $ETH to Monkey Drainer 0x8…fB8 and 200 $ETH into Twister money https://t.co/MpJQoZjYWl pic.twitter.com/qdbFVPI6yY— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) November 4, 2022
The information was first reported by self-acclaimed 2D rip-off detector ZackXBT, who estimated the stolen collectibles have been price 520 ETH — roughly $824,200.
Monkey drainer was additionally used just lately when each AJT & Gabriel Leydon have been sim swapped.
Previous to that he’s had different enormous assaults as properly. https://t.co/OlDCFvJ6BA pic.twitter.com/ZMcdnYFnRo
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) November 4, 2022
The latest theft represents the second exploit by the Monkey drainer inside ten days. On Oct. 25, the exploiter ripped off 700 ETH ($1 million) over 24 hours from a number of victims.
1/ Over the previous 24 hrs ~700 ETH ($1m) has been stolen by the phishing scammer generally known as Monkey Drainer.
They just lately surpassed 7300 transactions from their drainer pockets after being round for only some months. pic.twitter.com/6vAYBiqCxQ
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) October 25, 2022
Two of the most important victims misplaced $370,000 by signing transactions on malicious phishing websites operated by Monkey Drainer. One of many victims misplaced one BAYC, one CloneX, $36,000 in USDC, and 12 different NFTs price round $150,000, whereas one other held over $6.2 million price of crypto on the time however solely misplaced $220,000.
Replace: Monkey spammed the thread with bots pic.twitter.com/gKvN1qhpol
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) October 25, 2022
Monkey Drainer normally robs NFTs holders of their assortment by phishing assaults setting faux crypto and NFT websites, posing as outstanding blockchain platforms like Aptos and RTFKT.
In the meantime, digital asset companies are bracing up in opposition to Monkey Drainer. Not too long ago, Web3 safety agency Chainabuse flagged 4 addresses related to the Hacker.
