$ALI, $PUSH Tokens Phishing Hack

TOTAL LOST $4.4M
Medium Phishing

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ChatGPT Perplexity Claude Grok
Affected Chain 2024 Incident surface
Recovered - No recovery reported
All-Time Rank #464 By amount stolen
Protocol Type Exploit/Phishing Target category

Incident Overview

Quick Summary

Massive Loss: $4.39M of $ALI and $PUSH Tokens Lost to Crypto Phishing

Details of the Exploit

A staggering $4.39 million worth of $ALI and $PUSH tokens were recently lost to a crypto phishing scam. The victim, identified by the address 0x7653c936…6a744e, fell prey to the scam orchestrated by scammers with addresses 0x84672cc5…9e29cd and 0x2ee9a175…621edb. The victim inadvertently signed a malicious Uniswap Permit2's Permit Batch message, facilitating the unauthorized transfer of tokens.

Notably, the token spender involved is a Safe wallet address.

Block Data Reference

Victim's Address: 0x7653c936…6a744e

Scammer 1 Address: 0x84672cc5…9e29cd

Scammer 2 Address: 0x2ee9a175…621edb

Exploit tx:

https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc943ea89…9417cc

This is classified as a Phishing Attacks . Compare similar hacks →

Incident Report

Protocol / Project $ALI, $PUSH Tokens Phishing
Date of Incident
Attack Technique Phishing
Classification Token
Primary Source View Post-Mortem

Protocol Information

Protocol Type Exploit/Phishing
Team Anonymous
Source Code Unverified

What the Attacker Needed to Succeed

Understanding the prerequisites for this type of attack helps auditors identify protocols that are most at risk and helps developers build better defenses.

Technical Knowledge Deep understanding of phishing and Solidity and EVM internals
Capital Required Seed capital to cover gas and initial position setup
On-Chain Access Ability to interact with smart contracts and deploy a custom exploit contract
Protocol Analysis Identification of the exploitable vulnerability in $ALI, $PUSH Tokens Phishing's contract logic - root cause: token
Execution Speed Precise transaction ordering and timing to exploit the vulnerability within a single atomic block
Obfuscation Plan A strategy to launder and move stolen funds - typically through mixers, cross-chain bridges, or decentralized DEX swaps to resist tracing

What Auditors Should Check

Could this have been caught in audit? Likely — with a thorough Phishing audit checklist and test coverage

If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to $ALI, $PUSH Tokens Phishing, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (March 2024).

  • Verify all logic paths related to Phishing are guarded by proper access controls and input validation - see the Phishing Attacks attack class for patterns
  • Review privileged functions (owner, admin, governance) for potential abuse vectors - centralization risks should be documented and bounded with timelocks or multi-sigs

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Related Attack Classes

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