Tim Beiko

Account Compromise

Estimated loss

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VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE

Root cause is phishing — victims signed malicious transactions or approvals off-protocol. Contract logic was not the failure surface; user-side wallet hygiene was. Pre-deployment audit cannot catch this class.

▰ METHOD

PHISHING

Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

Forensic narrative

The Twitter account of Tim Beiko, the core developer of Ethereum, was suspected of being stolen. He posted two tweets about "ETH airdrop" within half an hour with a phishing link(ether.fo). Users are asked not to click on suspicious links to prevent funds from being stolen. According to the analysis of SlowMist, the mastermind behind the scenes is PinkDrainer. Attack method (per SlowMist): Account Compromise. Reported loss: -.

Primary source

https://www.panewslab.com/zh/sqarticledetails/cfppi2h7.html ↗

Sourced from

slowmist

Technical record