tldr; Address poisoning attacks are surging, with a recent victim losing $600,000 due to a copy-paste error involving a contaminated wallet address. Attackers use zero-value transfers to plant fake addresses in transaction histories, leading to irreversible losses when victims mistakenly use these addresses. Over one million poisoning attempts occur daily on Ethereum, targeting high-value wallets. Industry experts are urging wallet developers to implement measures like blocking poisoned addresses and pre-execution risk assessments to mitigate these attacks.
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brainfreeze3 on
there’s no luck involved
imfrombiz on
I don’t think i have ever retrieved an address from my tx history other than maybe contract addresses for queries. Definitely havent done it to send crypto
shadowmage666 on
TLDR just always copy and paste from your destination
GBeastETH on
Not unlucky. Stupid.
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tldr; Address poisoning attacks are surging, with a recent victim losing $600,000 due to a copy-paste error involving a contaminated wallet address. Attackers use zero-value transfers to plant fake addresses in transaction histories, leading to irreversible losses when victims mistakenly use these addresses. Over one million poisoning attempts occur daily on Ethereum, targeting high-value wallets. Industry experts are urging wallet developers to implement measures like blocking poisoned addresses and pre-execution risk assessments to mitigate these attacks.
*This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
there’s no luck involved
I don’t think i have ever retrieved an address from my tx history other than maybe contract addresses for queries. Definitely havent done it to send crypto
TLDR just always copy and paste from your destination
Not unlucky. Stupid.