Phishing Scams Resurface Amid Market Recovery, Leading to High-Profile Losses

According to CryptoPotato, phishing scams have made a comeback in the digital asset ecosystem amid market-wide recovery, causing significant financial losses for high-profile crypto investors, whales, and prominent industry figures. On March 21st, CertiK identified a deposit of 3,700 ETH into Tornado Cash on the Ethereum blockchain, valued at over $10 million, which raised eyebrows due to its connection with a major phishing incident from September 2023. The funds were stolen from a crypto whale who lost $24 million worth of staked ETH on the liquid staking provider Rocket Pool during the phishing attack. The hack was carried out through two transactions, with 9,579 stETH and 4,851 rETH stolen, amounting to $15.5 million in stETH and $8.5 million in rETH at the time of the breach. Scam Sniffer's investigation revealed that the whale unknowingly granted token approval to the fraudsters through the authorization of "increaseAllowance" transactions. In February, phishing attacks accounted for $14.6 million out of the total $160 million lost, with $6.4 million recovered successfully. Scam Sniffer's February Phishing Report found that many victims were tricked by scams through X (formerly Twitter), where fake comments from fraudulent accounts led them to malicious websites. Earlier this year, an anonymous individual lost $4.2 million to a phishing attack that used a falsified ERC-20 permission signature.

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