Golden Finance reported that according to the on-chain security analyst Scam Sniffer (@realScamSniffer), about 7 hours ago, a user transferred $10.31 million to a fraudulent address by copying the wrong address from the contaminated transaction history. In addition, another user lost $43,674 in a similar way about 14 hours ago.
It is reported that the 'transaction history pollution attack' is a scammer sending false transfers with a similar Address, causing the fake Address to appear in the user's transaction history, and the user mistakenly copied this Address when transferring again.
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ThirteenBurrowsOfTheCunning
· 03-18 07:35
Shouldn't this be an issue with the exchange's built-in Wallet? I hope the exchange can recover and compensate.
Two Addresses have fallen victim to "transaction history pollution attacks" in the past 14 hours, with a total loss exceeding $140,000
Golden Finance reported that according to the on-chain security analyst Scam Sniffer (@realScamSniffer), about 7 hours ago, a user transferred $10.31 million to a fraudulent address by copying the wrong address from the contaminated transaction history. In addition, another user lost $43,674 in a similar way about 14 hours ago. It is reported that the 'transaction history pollution attack' is a scammer sending false transfers with a similar Address, causing the fake Address to appear in the user's transaction history, and the user mistakenly copied this Address when transferring again.