wallet drainers
Summary
Wallet drainers are malicious phishing tools specifically designed for the Web3 ecosystem that trick users into authorizing fraudulent transactions that empty their cryptocurrency wallets. These sophisticated scam-as-a-service operations have stolen over $500 million in 2024 alone from hundreds of thousands of victims through fake websites masquerading as legitimate crypto projects.
Connected Entities
6 entities · 60 linked investigations- Scam Sniffer→associated with→wallet drainers(80%)
- wallet drainers→mentioned with→Aurory(60%)
- wallet drainers→mentioned with→Tether(65%)
- wallet drainers→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- Inferno Drainer→mentioned with→Tether(60%)
- Inferno Drainer→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- wallet drainers→mentioned with→Inferno Drainer(80%)
Timeline(11 events)
March 2023
Monkey Drainer shuts down, next batch of drainers emerge including Inferno and Pink
Cointelegraph31 December 2023
Total damage from drainers reaches just under $300 million affecting 320,000+ users
Kaspersky31 May 2024
Pink Drainer announces retirement after amassing $85 million from 21,000+ victims
Cointelegraph31 December 2024
Wallet drainers steal $494 million from 332,000 victims in 2024
Infosecurity MagazineDecision Log
- hash: 7V7w9swzDHEevJMSp6N1LFa2u1aR7SLytF92hDHCQebM
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 9 of 9 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-20250514
generated: 4/17/2026, 3:49:39 AM
last updated: 7/24/2026, 3:54:15 PM
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