Ethereum’s well-known MEV Bot address Jaredfromsubway.eth has been hit by a targeted “anti-MEV honeypot attack,” according to MarsBit. The address lost more than $7.5 million in the incident. The Bot, described in the source as one of the most profitable MEV Bots, was turned from a chain-based hunter into the target of a carefully structured trap.
The attackers deployed 66 fake contracts and liquidity pools that were disguised as mainstream assets. These setups were used to trigger the Bot’s automated trading behavior. During the interaction, the Bot executed transactions and granted permissions, after which the attackers used a built-in backdoor to steal assets. The attack centered on the Bot’s behavioral logic, including automated decision-making, permission approval, and transaction execution paths.
MEV generally refers to value captured through transaction ordering on-chain, while MEV Bots rely on programmatic strategies to act quickly in blockchain markets. The loss suffered by Jaredfromsubway.eth shows that even top-level automated trading systems can face security threats when fake assets, deceptive liquidity pools, and approval-based traps are combined against their operating logic.