Bitcoiner lost $ 91 million in a single deal for social engineering attack on Tuesday, with money and then sent to the Bitcoin portfolio that focuses on privacy, according to Blockchain Zachbt investigator.
The victim was deceived by the fraudsters who pretended to exchange encryption and support the device portfolio, and lost 783 bitcoin (BTC) In one treatment, zachbt He said In the X Publishing on Thursday.
Blockchain data He appears Zakist said that the theft took place on Tuesday at 11:06 am UTC, and the exploiter began to launder the stolen money after a day through the Al -Mubaabi portfolio that focuses on the privacy of Bitcoin to hide the stolen money track.
The social engineering attacks of the attackers include deceiving people to detect sensitive information, such as their own keys or passwords, allowing the attackers to steal money. These exploits were rampant in encryption, as it targeted everyone from advanced encryption investors to the elderly.
to request How can one avoid it socially, Zachbt said to assume that every call or email was received is a “virtual fraud”.
Zachxbt excludes northerners North Korea
While Zachbt did not mention any suspects, he excluded the notorious North Korean state as a potential mere.
The attacker received money in clean Bitcoin wallet address – ‘BC1QYXYK’ – before using Wasabi Wallet privacy features to try to hide them.
Zachxbt added that, such as chance, the attack occurred exactly one year later 243 million dollars the creditor stealing Genesis.
Budget people impersonate the sheep service providers
The fraudsters have been repeatedly committed suicide the provider of the coding devices such as LEDGER and Trezor using advanced methods.
In late April, the fraudsters of the fraudsters Ledger plagiarized Send messages Among the company, users ask the secret recovery expressions of the encryption portfolios in an attempt to control the device.
They claimed that “the update of critical security” should be implemented on their devices and that failure in compliance may “may lead to access to your wallet and your money.”
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In the same month, an elderly American citizen It lost more than 330 million dollars Bitcoin deserves social engineering attack, and sends shock waves across industry.
Encryption theft is still a bill of dollars
more than 2.1 billion dollars were stolen Among the attacks associated with encryption during the first five months of 2025, with the largest part of the losses in the wallet and pure hunting attacks, Blockchain security company said in June.
He was the largest incident to a large extent $ 1.4 billion exploitation From Crypto Exchange bybit in February, highlighting that even large -scale large -scale encryption platforms are still in danger.
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