Angel Drainer Steals Over $400K From Several Crypto Wallets
Reportedly, over $400,000 was stolen from 128 cryptocurrency wallets by the infamous phishing group Angel Drainer using a new attack vector that utilized Etherscan’s verification utility to obscure the malicious nature of a smart contract. Angel Drainer initiated the attack at 6:40 a.m. on February 12 by deploying a malicious Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) vault […]
Etherscan Acquires Solana Blockchain Explorer Solscan
Etherscan, the operator of an Ethereum blockchain explorer, has completed additional acquisitions for Solscan, the Solana blockchain explorer, in an effort to help the firm expand its blockchain data services across multiple networks. Establishing Solscan as the preeminent block explorer for the Solana ecosystem, Etherscan formally disclosed the acquisition on January 3. Etherscan stated that […]
Inactive Pre-mined Ethereum Wallet Resurfaces 8 Years Later
After eight years of inactivity, a wallet address containing pre-mined Ethereum worth $116 million transferred its entire stash of 61,216 Ether to an address on the Kraken crypto exchange. The Ethereum ecosystem held a sale event in June 2014, allowing early team members and co-founders to acquire pre-mined Ether when the network could not generate […]
Ethereum blockchain records lowest gas fees in 7months
Gas fees for Ethereum blockchain transactions have been dropping rapidly since the start of the year and have recently decreased to their lowest levels since August 2021. Despite the reduction, they are, however, not cheap. According to Coin Metrics data published by CryptoRank Platform, the seven-day moving average cost of an Ethereum transaction was $11.14 […]
Etherscan launches an Ethereum-based wallet-to-wallet instant messaging feature
Dubbed the Blockscan Chat, the service enables users to message each other anonymously via their Ethereum wallet addresses, it can be used to negotiate purchases and also in dealing with whitehat hackers. The company behind Etherscan, a famous blockchain explorer and analytics platform has created “Blockscan Chat,” an Ethereum-based wallet-to-wallet instant messaging service. Blockscan is […]