Cryptos Tribe Hack
What happened
The $CSTC token has been rugpulled by it's team. Scammers took a profit of $91k.
The creator of the token deployed the contract to the BSC network, where 1B tokens were minted to him:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xec710cbf…eb3ba0
After that, the token creator started sending tokens to other addresses:
https://bscscan.com/token/0x78f1a611…29e8bc?a=0xce213442…d6c105
Scammer address (C) interacted with the finalize function, which created a pool of liquidity between the CSTC/BNB pair: https://bscscan.com/tx/0x85065f9b…4ca479
After a while, when investors invested in the token, scammer address (B) started dumping the price of the token in this transaction:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xe439ffd5…a9511c
$CSTC tokens were received by scammer address (B) in this transaction: https://bscscan.com/tx/0x6c8cdeaf…01bce7
Funds were laundered via Tornado.cash.
As the time of this writing information on this case is scarce. More sources will be added if the case should develop.
Involved addresses:
Token creator, scammer address (A): https://bscscan.com/address/0xce213442…d6c105
Scammer address (B): https://bscscan.com/address/0x17fb844d…132898
Scammer address (C) - LP creator: https://bscscan.com/address/0x664b67af…831bba
Liquidity pool creation transaction: https://bscscan.com/tx/0x85065f9b…4ca479
Contracts interacted with:
Bonus Pools:
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Report cryptostribe.io
- analysis Web Archive web.archive.org
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