Monkey Drainer steals 7 CryptoPunks, 20 Otherdeed NFTs

Prominent blockchain information steadfast PeckshieldAlert and onchain sleuth Zachxbt revealed connected Nov. 4 that a phishing scammer operating nether the pseudonym Monkey Drainer had stolen 7 Cryptopunks and 20 Otherdeed NFTs.

#PeckShieldAlert @zachxbt has detected that Monkey Drainer grabbed ~ 7 CryptoPunks & ~20 Otherdeed #NFT
0xc…466 has transferred ~120 $ETH to Monkey Drainer 0x8…fB8 and 200 $ETH into Tornado currency https://t.co/MpJQoZjYWl pic.twitter.com/qdbFVPI6yY

— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) November 4, 2022

The quality was archetypal reported by self-acclaimed 2D scam detector ZackXBT, who estimated the stolen collectibles were worthy 520 ETH — astir $824,200.

Monkey drainer was besides utilized precocious erstwhile some AJT & Gabriel Leydon were sim swapped.

Prior to that he’s had different immense attacks arsenic well. https://t.co/OlDCFvJ6BA pic.twitter.com/ZMcdnYFnRo

— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) November 4, 2022

The caller theft represents the 2nd exploit by the Monkey drainer wrong 10 days. On Oct. 25, the exploiter ripped disconnected 700 ETH ($1 million) implicit 24 hours from respective victims. 

1/ Over the past 24 hrs ~700 ETH ($1m) has been stolen by the phishing scammer known arsenic Monkey Drainer.

They precocious surpassed 7300 transactions from their drainer wallet aft being astir for lone a fewer months. pic.twitter.com/6vAYBiqCxQ

— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) October 25, 2022

Two of the largest victims mislaid $370,000 by signing transactions connected malicious phishing sites operated by Monkey Drainer. One of the victims mislaid 1 BAYC, 1 CloneX, $36,000 successful USDC, and 12 different NFTs worthy astir $150,000, whereas different held implicit $6.2 cardinal worthy of crypto astatine the clip but lone mislaid $220,000.

Update: Monkey spammed the thread with bots pic.twitter.com/gKvN1qhpol

— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) October 25, 2022

Monkey Drainer usually robs NFTs holders of their postulation done phishing attacks mounting fake crypto and NFT sites, posing arsenic salient blockchain platforms similar Aptos and RTFKT. 

Meanwhile, integer plus firms are bracing up against Monkey Drainer. Recently, Web3 information firm Chainabuse flagged 4 addresses connected to the Hacker.

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