PANews reports on March 5 that, according to Pidun monitoring, an address associated with crypto KOL @sillytuna (0xd2e8…ca41) was targeted in an address poisoning attack, resulting in a loss of approximately $24 million in aEthUSDC. About $20 million DAI is still stored in two temporary wallets controlled by the attackers (not yet mixed):
- 0xdCA9…c9C4 (approximately $10 million);
- 0xd0c2…dd3e (approximately $10 million).
The attackers have begun moving small amounts of funds cross-chain to Arbitrum.
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