PoW ETH Hack
What happened
Fake Ethereum PoW token was exploited on the Binance chain, causing of loss more than 255,780 $USD of user's funds in $WETH
PoW ETH is a BEP20 standard token, which is not related to the original $ETH or $ETHW. The scammer created ETHW/WETH pair and added liquidity. The scammer had more than 95% token supply in balance and an opportunity to mint an infinite amount of fake $ETHW.
After users began trading on various DEX'es the scammer used the remaining $ETHW tokens to drain $WETH. The profit of the scammer reached 180 $WETH or $255,780 in dollar terms.
Scammer addresses:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x014fa682…04f269
https://etherscan.io/address/0x6001b9ff…f29204
Token pair:
https://etherscan.io/token/0xf64af470…f72aff
Draining transactions:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xf1b564b1…c0a92d
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x242595a1…994704
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x8f247284…661c6b
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
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