Piratage explosif : BTCTurk perd 48 millions de dollars dans un braquage de portefeuille chaud

Une attaque ciblée a frappé l'échange turc BTCTurk, siphonnant 48 millions de dollars en crypto-actifs depuis ses portefeuilles chauds. Les hackers ont exploité une vulnérabilité non divulguée, laissant la plateforme et ses utilisateurs sous le choc.

Le coup est rude pour un secteur qui se vante de sa sécurité « infaillible ». Ironie du sort : les fonds volés pourraient bien financer le prochain shitcoin à la mode.

BTCTurk promet des compensations, mais l’histoire nous a appris à ne pas retenir notre souffle. Les régulateurs turcs surveillent déjà la situation, tandis que les traders s’arrachent les cheveux.

BTCTurk hacker tries to launder funds

The proceeds from the hack were sent to two Ethereum ecosystem wallets and another one on Solana. The Solana wallet was created 56 days ago and has shown activity since June. 

The solana wallet also performed puzzling operations after the hack, moving funds to another wallet tagged as “PNUT Whale.” 

The initial attack wallet received MELANIA, TRUMP, PYTH, WIF, PENGU, PUMP, and SOL, before sending the tokens to another wallet, using the PNUT Whale wallet as an intermediary. 

In the end, the assets from Solana were parked in the last known address, with a total balance of $6.09M. 

The hacker now holds highly liquid meme tokens, SOL, and stablecoins. Those tokens may be swapped on DEX, but not mixed without a trace. 

BTCTurk hacker mostly holds ETH

ETH made up the bigger part of the recent hack, with over $34M spread into two Ethereum-based wallets. The first wallet contained more than $17.5M in ETH, along with smaller hauls from the top L2 chains. 

The second wallet held upward of $16.8M in ETH, L2 tokens, and smaller niche chains like mantle and Moonbeam. The BTCTurk exchange trades multiple small-scale tokens, making up over 70% of all volumes. 

To consolidate the funds, the hacker immediately swapped out most minor assets into ETH.

The crypto market is also suffering a slide, with BTC sliding to the $118,000 range, just hours after its all-time record above $124,000. ETH sank to $4,539.83, while SOL sank to $194. Some of the affected tokens like OP had a sharper drop as they were swapped out aggressively into ETH.

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