Monkey Drainer Hack

TOTAL LOST $16.5M
High Phishing Attacks

What happened

Quick Summary

Monkey Drainer phishing group announced on their Telegram about shutting down the service. The total stolen amount reached 16,506,602 $USD.

Details of the Exploit

Monkey Drainer is a crypto scam service, that provides phishing smart contracts. The Monkey hacker announced they shut down the service, deleting all files immediately. The total stolen amount reached 16,506,602 $USD according to SlowMist.

The service provided malicious smart contracts with unverified source code to drain the wallets of affected users, including native coins, ERC20 tokens, and NFTs on various chains like Ethereum, Binance, Avalanche and etc. Monkey Drainer took 30% of the stolen funds from the scammers as payment.

Block Data Reference

Malicious contract example:

https://etherscan.io/address/0x5e0102e6…e7e5f0

Case & protocol details

Classification Other
Protocol Type Exploit/Phishing

Evidence & learning

Attack pattern

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Sources and on-chain records

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