Today (Thursday), Cyvers Alert, a Web3 security firm,
announced the detection of multiple suspicious transactions involving WazirX’s
Safe Multisig wallet on Ethereum. The firm identified that $234.9 million in
funds from the wallet were transferred to a new address.
Each transaction’s caller was funded by Tornado Cash, a
decentralized protocol for private transactions. The new address has already
swapped the transferred funds, which comprised Tether.
Funds Shifted Secretly
Crypto sleuth ZachXBT, in a Telegram post in the
“Investigations by ZachXBT” channel, announced that the suspected primary
attacker address still has over $104 million to dump. A review of the address
holdings revealed the wallet mainly contains approximately $100 million in
Shiba Inu.
It also holds $4.7 million in FLOKI, $3.2 million in Fantom, $2.8
million in Chainlink, and $2.3 million in Fetch.ai. The remaining funds
are split between a wide range of other tokens.
🚨More than $230M of assets have been abnormally transferred from the #WazirX(@WazirXIndia) wallet to the wallet”0x04b2″.Currently, wallet “0x04b2” is dumping these assets, and has dumped 640.27B $PEPE($7.6M).https://t.co/wem0wVk7OH pic.twitter.com/66Poia2qAk
— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) July 18, 2024
In response to the security breach, WazirX has temporarily
paused the withdrawal of cryptocurrencies and INR on its platform. The exchange
posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, explaining that they are actively
investigating the incident and will provide updates as the situation develops.
Increasing Crypto Security Breaches
Earlier, CoinStats, a crypto portfolio management platform, experienced
a major security breach, as reported by Finance Magnates. This
sophisticated hack involved social engineering, tricking an employee into
compromising the company’s AWS infrastructure, resulting in the theft of $2
million in crypto assets.
Cybercriminals
exploited Orbit Bridge, a service of the cross-chain protocol Orbit Chain,
stealing about $82 million in cryptocurrencies. Orbit Chain confirmed the
attack occurred on December 31, 2023, and is currently investigating the issue
with international law enforcement.
This article was written by Tareq Sikder at www.financemagnates.com.
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