Odaily reported that an address labeled Bofur Capital was hit by an address poisoning attack after withdrawing funds from Compound. The attacker sent a dust transaction of 0.0002 USDC to create a lookalike address, and the victim copied the wrong one. The stolen funds were then swapped into about 2 million DAI, according to the brief report.
Odaily said an address tagged as Bofur Capital got hit by an address poisoning attack after pulling funds from Compound, losing about $2 million.
The attacker pushed through a dust transfer of 0.0002 USDC to make an address that looked almost the same. Then the victim copied and pasted that address. Wrong one. And the funds were stolen.
The stolen assets were later swapped into about 2 million DAI.
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