Inferno Drainer

Compound Finance is one of the earliest and most established decentralized lending protocols on Ethereum, launched in 2018 and governed since 2020 by a DAO around the COMP token. The protocol's smart-contract core has never suffered a direct exploit of user funds, but it has been repeatedly hit by operational and front-end security failures — a costly 2021 token-distribution bug, a 2023 X/Twitter account compromise used for phishing, a 2024 DNS hijack of its website, and a 2024 governance controversy in which a whale-backed group used purchased voting power to pass a treasury allocation over community objections. Combined with declining total value locked and a 2023 leadership departure, these incidents warrant continued scrutiny even though the underlying lending contracts have a long audit history and no reported loss of user deposits from a core-protocol hack.

Porkbun LLC is a legitimate ICANN-accredited domain registrar founded circa 2014-2015, headquartered in Sherwood, Oregon, and managing over 3.45 million domains. While the company is not itself a scam operation, it has attracted scrutiny from the crypto security community — including on-chain investigator ZachXBT — for hosting phishing infrastructure linked to Angel Drainer and Inferno Drainer wallet-draining services, including fake Ledger sites. Third-party tracking platforms document hundreds of flagged phishing domains registered through Porkbun and allege that the company's abuse-response enforcement has been inadequate, with a majority of reported domains remaining active after formal abuse reports.

Cointelegraph is a major legitimate cryptocurrency news outlet that has been a victim of two distinct infrastructure compromises. In January 2024, attackers breached its email service provider MailerLite and sent phishing emails to subscribers using Angel Drainer malware, resulting in estimated losses of $580,000 to over $700,000 across affected platforms. In June 2025, attackers separately compromised Cointelegraph's banner advertising system to serve Inferno Drainer-linked pop-ups promoting a fake CTG token airdrop to site visitors.