Incident Overview
The Automated Assassins has been rugpulled by the project team. The team that was involved in the project created a collection on OpenSea, then to make the collection look more attractive, they raised the price of the token. When people minted the NFT by investing their funds in the contract, the team called function withdraw() to get all the funds from it in the amount of $202K.
Automated Assassins was supposed to be a P2E game.
The team of the project created the NFT contract with this transaction (https://etherscan.io/tx/0x026b705a…07d7a4).
The project team used funds that were raised in the initial minting phase in order to sweep the floor price of the collection on OpenSea, making the collection appear successful to investors (https://etherscan.io/tx/0x7200806a…4bb79e).
In this transaction, the withdraw() function is called, where all the $ETH from the contract are withdrawn
(https://etherscan.io/tx/0x03987fdd…c24b40).
As the time of this writing information on this case is scarce. More sources will be added if the case should develop.
Token contract address: https://etherscan.io/address/0x8abfc968…c07437
Address that deployed the contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0xff45874e…2f022f
Scammer addresses:
1) https://etherscan.io/address/0x3c1e66d6…4dbd7f
2) https://etherscan.io/address/0xb7c8d697…d8ca40
3) https://etherscan.io/address/0x67ef43a7…220f7f
4) https://etherscan.io/address/0x1f07957e…fccfa9
5) https://etherscan.io/address/0xd40999c2…e918fc
6) https://etherscan.io/address/0x5609b933…22371a
Incident Report
Protocol Information
What the Attacker Needed to Succeed
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- Verify all logic paths related to Rugpull are guarded by proper access controls and input validation
- 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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