Roughly $950,000 worth of crypto has been stolen from an Ethereum “vanity address” generated with a tool called Profanity. The exploit leveraged a similar vulnerability related to the recent $160 million attack on market maker Wintermute.
A “vanity address” is a type of crypto address that conforms to certain parameters laid out by the creator, often representing their brand or name.
Instead of the crypto address being a random, machine-generated string of numbers and letters, a vanity address would be human-generated. It’s for this reason that users on GitHub have indicated these types of addresses are more vulnerable to brute force attacks.
The hacker stole 732 Ethereum on September 25 before transferring the funds straight to the now-sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash, according to the data from PeckShield.
#PeckShieldAlert Seems like $950k worth of crypto has been stolen by 0x9731F from Ethereum “vanity address” generated with a tool called Profanity. The exploiter already...
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