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Technical Discussion / Re: Spamming with worthless tokens, what's the point?
« on: Today at 02:20:25 AM »Here's a crazy case of a dust attack that ended at the mercy of the hacker who returned the funds.
The purpose was to create confusion in the history of transactions with similar addresses, which ultimately led to the confusion of the victim who sent coins to the wrong address.
https://cryptopotato.com/71m-wbtc-dusting-attack-victim-recovers-stolen-loot/
It wasn't mercy. The hacker received 10% of them funds, millions... and now he is "clean" I guess.
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The victim first reached out to the scammer on May 5, offering a 10% in return for the stolen funds. In cooperation with blockchain cybersecurity firm Match Systems and crypto exchange Cryptex, the victim threatened to trace the funds if the attacker failed to respond by May 6.
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Meanwhile, the worth of the returned assets hovers around $66.8 million because ether has declined more than BTC in the past week. Data from CoinMarketCap shows ETH fell over 6.4% while BTC slumped roughly 2.8% within the same time frame.