{"id":179246,"date":"2023-12-27T00:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/crypto-drainer-steals-59-million-from-63k-people-in-twitter-ad-push"},"modified":"2023-12-27T00:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T06:22:48","slug":"crypto-drainer-steals-59-million-from-63k-people-in-twitter-ad-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/crypto-drainer-steals-59-million-from-63k-people-in-twitter-ad-push","title":{"rendered":"Crypto drainer steals $59 million from 63k people in Twitter ad push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crypto-drainer-steals-59-million-from-63k-people-in-twitter-sad-push2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google and Twitter ads are promoting sites containing a cryptocurrency drainer named \u2018MS Drainer\u2019 that has already stolen $59 million from 63,210 victims over the past nine months.<\/p>\n<p>According to blockchain threat analysts at <a href=\"https:\/\/drops.scamsniffer.io\/post\/from-google-to-x-ads-tracing-the-crypto-wallet-drainers-58-million-trail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ScamSniffer<\/a>, they discovered over ten thousand phishing websites using the drainer from March 2023 to today, with spikes in the activity observed in May, June, and November.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/crypto-phishing-service-inferno-drainer-defrauds-thousands-of-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\">drainer<\/a> is a malicious smart contract or, in this case, a complete phishing suite designed to drain funds from a user\u2019s cryptocurrency wallet without their consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Twitter ads are promoting sites containing a cryptocurrency drainer named \u2018MS Drainer\u2019 that has already stolen $59 million from 63,210 victims over the past nine months. According to blockchain threat analysts at ScamSniffer, they discovered over ten thousand phishing websites using the drainer from March 2023 to today, with spikes in the activity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,1761,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}