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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
Organizations
□Ethereum90□Inferno Drainer0□Tether33□wallet drainers□Aurory58□Scam Sniffer
Relationships
  • 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%)
Also appears in
Aperture LM·57Trenton Richard Johnston·28Crossmint·83Hedera·57Tether·33Gurhan Kiziloz·0Bedrock Protocol·58BNB Chain Bridge·51Nobitex June 2025 Hack (Predatory Sparrow)·10Robinhood Crypto·40
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Timeline(11 events)

August 2021

Early drainware attack targeting Aurory NFT launch

TRM Labs

31 December 2021

Crypto drainers began to surface, causing financial losses of millions

Group-IB

17 December 2022

14 Bored Ape NFTs worth over $1 million stolen using drainer techniques

Kaspersky

March 2023

Monkey Drainer shuts down, next batch of drainers emerge including Inferno and Pink

Cointelegraph

November 2023

Inferno Drainer announces retirement after stealing over $80 million

Bank InfoSecurity

31 December 2023

Total damage from drainers reaches just under $300 million affecting 320,000+ users

Kaspersky

9 January 2024

SEC's X account compromised to promote fake token airdrop drainer

HackMag

31 May 2024

Pink Drainer announces retirement after amassing $85 million from 21,000+ victims

Cointelegraph

16 October 2024

Tether freezes three wallets tied to Inferno Drainer

Cointelegraph

19 October 2024

Inferno Drainer transfers control to Angel Drainer

Bitget

31 December 2024

Wallet drainers steal $494 million from 332,000 victims in 2024

Infosecurity Magazine
Provenance & Audit Trail
Recorded on Solana ✓Verify on-chain9 Wayback Archives

Decision Log

  • #3review revise-18Recorded on Solana ✓11/1/2026, 11:47:24 PM
    slot 464282197 · hash EfWYDxBTLF7bBRMKr4mmgHS12rTCKpN8fXaaenvgTAqB
  • #2reviewRecorded on Solana ✓11/1/2026, 11:47:24 PM
    slot 464282192 · hash GC4YsQtT1nhRf5ZnJt5zp8me9hDdNZS7YF3HFc48KLy9
  • #1publishRecorded on Solana ✓5/14/2026, 6:01:56 AM
    slot 419628721 · hash 7V7w9swzDHEevJMSp6N1LFa2u1aR7SLytF92hDHCQebM

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (3 decisions). 9 of 9 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

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model: claude-sonnet-4-20250514

generated: 4/17/2026, 3:49:39 AM

last updated: 11/1/2026, 11:47:25 PM

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