Hackerul Wormhole mută 155 de milioane de dolari în cea mai mare schimbare de fonduri furate în ultimele luni

Hackerul Wormhole mută 155 de milioane de dolari în cea mai mare schimbare de fonduri furate în ultimele luni

Marca temporală: 24 ianuarie 2023 12:42

Hackerul din spatele atacului podului Wormhole de 321 de milioane de dolari a mutat o mare parte din fonduri furate, datele despre tranzacții arătând că Etherul în valoare de 155 de milioane de dolari (ETH) was transferred to a decentralized exchange (DEX) on Jan 23.

The Wormhole hack was the third largest crypto hack in 2022, after the protocol’s token bridge a suferit un exploat on Feb. 2, 2022, that resulted in the loss of 120,000 Wrapped ETH (wETH) around worth $321 million.

Conform tranzacției istorie of the hacker’s alleged wallet address, the latest activity shows that 95,630 ETH was sent to the OpenOcean DEX and then subsequently converted into ETH-pegged assets such as Lido Finance’s staked ETH (stETH) and wrapped staked (wstETH).

Digging into the transaction history further, crypto community members such as @spreekaway also highlighted that the hacker went on to conduct a slew of odd looking transactions.

For example, the hacker used their stETH holdings as collateral to împrumuta 13 million worth of the DAI stablecoin, before swapping it out for more stETH, wrapping into stETH again and then borrowing some more DAI.

Notably, the Wormhole team has taken the opportunity to once again offer the hacker a bounty of $10 million if they return all the funds, after it left an embedded message conveying such in a transaction via the Wormhole: Deployer.

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Embedded message: Etherscan

The hacker’s hefty ETH transaction appears to have had a direct impact on the price of stETH according to de date from Dune Analytics. The asset’s price went from slightly under peg of 0.9962 ETH on Jan. 23, to as high as 1.0002 ETH the following day, before dropping back to 0.9981 at the time of writing.

Related: Grupul Lazarus din Coreea de Nord a organizat un hack Harmony de 100 de milioane de dolari, confirmă FBI

With the Wormhole hack likely to catch more attention in light of the latest incident, blockchain security firms such as Ancilia, Inc. warned on Jan. 19 that searching the keywords “Wormhole Bridge” in Google is currently showing promoted ad websites that are actually phishing operations.

The community has been warned to be diligent on what they are clicking on relating to this term.

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