Crypto influencer loses $24M in address poisoning attack

An address associated with the crypto influencer Sillytuna, who has 25,000 followers on X, has lost $24 million worth of aEthUSDC in an address poisoning attack, blockchain security firm PeckShield reported. The attacker currently holds approximately $20 million in DAI across two wallets. PeckShield noted that the attacker has begun bridging small amounts of the stolen funds to the Arbitrum network but has not yet transferred them to a mixing protocol. Address poisoning is a scam in which attackers create a vanity wallet address that matches the first and last few characters of a user's address, tricking the victim into sending funds to the fraudulent address.