Crypto Holder Loses $24 Million in Address Poisoning Attack Tied to Violent Threats

A crypto holder identified as Sillytuna lost approximately $24 million in aEthUSDC after an address poisoning attack, with the incident also involving violent threats. According to on-chain data, the attacker has already converted most of the stolen funds. Why it matters: An address poisoning attack is a crypto scam in which scammers create a lookalike address and send a small transaction to the target’s address book.   This “poisons” the target’s address book, leading them to mistakenly send funds to the scammer’s address instead of the intended recipient source: https://beincrypto.com/crypto-attack-sillytuna-violent-threats/