CertiK drops findings on alleged scammer who stole $1M in crypto

Potential grounds linking an anonymous scammer to a Canadian radical was highlighted by blockchain information steadfast CertiK successful a study sent to Cointelegraph, nevertheless the institution has truthful acold failed to corroborate the sanction oregon individuality of the perpetrator/s. 

On Aug. 16, CertiK released their findings from their probe of a pseudonymous crypto scammer known arsenic “Faint.” According to CertiK, the alleged scammer has been progressive since 2022, and the institution has mislaid astatine slightest $1 cardinal from their actions.

The information steadfast identified respective Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domains linked to Faint. This includes faintxbt.eth, comefindme.eth, thanksfortheseed.eth, onchainkitten.eth and hzontop.eth.

CertiK besides highlighted that determination person been links that established Faint’s transportation to different alleged scammer known arsenic “Soup.” On July 17, on-chain researcher ZachXBT published an probe connected Soup and said that the hacker is liable for stealing millions successful assets aft attacking Discord servers by pretending to beryllium employees of a media platform.

1/ An probe into the Canadian phishing scammer known arsenic Soup (Dan) who has helped bargain millions successful assets by attacking the Discord servers of projects similar @Orbiter_Finance @PikaProtocol pic.twitter.com/EtD5FMiG4R

According to CertiK, the anonymous scammer often taunted projects aft compromising their Discord servers. After a Discord hack successful 2022, Faint posted a representation displaying a ticker and showing the announcement of the nonfungible token (NFT) paper crippled Cross The Ages that their Discord was compromised. 

Certik believes that the ticker shown by Faint successful the station successful 2022 is akin to a ticker that surfaced connected ZachXBT’s probe of a scammer known arsenic Madman. CertiK believes that the ticker is simply a imaginable lucifer to the 1 shown by Faint successful the erstwhile post.

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Despite the findings, the blockchain information steadfast inactive was not capable to find the existent names oregon identities of the hackers. The institution said that Faint inactive continues to beryllium a menace to the assemblage and encouraged assemblage members to support themselves against imaginable wallet drainer attempts.

Within the report, CertiK recommended applications similar Wallet Guard and Pocket Universe which are capable to alert users to connections with wallet drainers. The institution noted that users tin besides instrumentality precautions by verifying addresses and making definite that immoderate approvals they motion are not from recognized phishing addresses.

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