Kickboxer Tate Hack

TOTAL LOST $33K
Low Rugpull

What happened

Kickboxer Tate project was rugpulled by the deployer-related address, which drained roughly 33,000 $USD worth of $ETH.

Kickboxer Tate is an ERC20 token trading on the UniswapV2 pool in the Ethereum network. The token experienced a significant drop after a malicious action in which the initial buyers and deployers coordinated to drain liquidity from the pool. Investigation revealed that an EOA address bought 38,000,000 $KBTate tokens with 0.25 $ETH, then dumped them for 17.4 $ETH in one transaction to another EOA address controlled by the scammer's group.

The attacker transferred funds to their own account, which received additional cash injections from the tokens deployer.

Scammer Address as Deployer:

https://etherscan.io/address/0x188602fb…0e17B4

Scammer Address as Dumper:

https://etherscan.io/address/0xc7e90f04…3f6a83

Scammer Address as Funds Holder:

https://etherscan.io/address/0x753bD509…8836B0

Drain Transaction:

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x16da62cb…990a23

Case & protocol details

Classification Token
Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull
Affected asset / contract KBTate

Evidence & learning

Sources and on-chain records

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