$13 million Bitkeep hacker used fake websites to lure in users, says analytics company.
The report stated that the attacker set up several fake Bitkeep websites which contained an APK file that looked like version 7.2.9 of the Bitkeep wallet. When users “updated” their wallets by downloading the malicious file, their private keys or seed words were stolen and sent to the attacker.According to OKLink data, the bitkeep theft involved 4 chains BSC, ETH, TRX, Polygon, OKLink included 50 hacker addresses and total Txns volume reached $31M.
Once the attacker had users’ private keys, they unstaked all assets and drained them into five wallets under the attacker’s control. From there, they tried to cash out some of the funds using centralised exchanges: 2 ETH and 100 USDC were sent to Binance, and 21 ETH were sent to Changenow. The attack happened across five different networks: BNB Chain, Tron, Ethereum, and Polygon, and BNB Chain bridges Biswap, Nomiswap, and Apeswap were used to bridge some of the tokens to Ethereum. In total, over $13 million worth of crypto was taken in the attack.It is not yet clear how the attacker convinced users to visit the fake websites.
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