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Address Poisoning

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Ethereum holder loses $12.4M to address‑poisoning scam after wallet ‘dusting’ — Assets.beincrypto.com

Ethereum holder loses $12.4M to address‑poisoning scam after wallet ‘dusting’

A cryptocurrency investor lost 4,556 Ethereum — roughly $12.4 million — after mistakenly sending funds to a fraudulent wallet in an “address poisoning” attack, Specter, a pseudonymous blockchain analyst, reported. Specter’s on-chain analysis said the attacker had spent about two months monitoring the victim’s activity and had been

Researcher links Ethereum surge to address-poisoning attacks that stole $740K — Images.cointelegraph.com

Researcher links Ethereum surge to address-poisoning attacks that stole $740K

Security researcher Andrey Sergeenkov says Ethereum’s recent record network activity could be partially linked to a wave of address poisoning attacks that are exploiting sharply lower gas fees. Cointelegraph reported that network activity retention nearly doubled to 8 million addresses in a month and daily transactions reached an all-time

Research suggests Ethereum activity surge may be driven by address‑poisoning spam — Cdn.sanity.io

Research suggests Ethereum activity surge may be driven by address‑poisoning spam

Ethereum has posted record on‑chain activity, but research and data suggest much of the recent spike may be tied to address‑poisoning scams rather than organic usage. Address poisoning is a scam that relies on cheap "dust" transfers to contaminate transaction histories, according to the analysis, creating