On September 7th, a user fell victim to a phishing attack, resulting in the loss of 9579 stETH (approximately $15.6 million) and 4850 rETH (around $8.5 million). This incident is likely the largest single wallet breach using data tracking software in the entire history of cryptocurrency.

The victim granted approval to the attacker by signing an "increaseAllowance" transaction. The malicious actor had already converted the stolen funds into ETH and DAI, transferring them to multiple addresses. The affected address belonged to a seasoned trader and a significant market maker, who had been providing liquidity on Uniswap v3 for the WBTC/USDT pair, with a total value of over $1.6 million. This user had also been active in protocols like #Aave, #1inch, #Curve, #OMG, #EOS, and others.

According to Scam Sniffer analysts, the attacker's wallet is associated with several phishing websites.

Previously, journalists had warned that cybercriminals had started using URLs from government websites of various countries to deceive users of the non-custodial crypto wallet MetaMask and steal their assets.

In August, an unidentified individual attacked the decentralized exchange Cypher, built on Solana, and made off with approximately $1 million in cryptocurrencies.

Later, the yield aggregator Zunami Protocol was compromised, resulting in the loss of digital assets worth $2.1 million.$BTC $ETH