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One TRON address was created at 13:16 UTC on Nov 3. In the next 36 minutes it pulled funds out of more than 100 other addresses, some untouched since 2022.
you don't get that from a phishing click. that's someone who already had the keys.
"trust wallet hacked" is everywhere this week. i went through the posts and the chain. it's at least three separate stories glued together, and none of them shows a trust wallet app or server exploit.
A) the phishing site: real, but no losses tied to it
> nov 4 20:29 utc: @Malwarehunterr exposed trastwallet[.]cam, a fake "review your wallet transfers" page. its script scanned balances and staged transfers to fixed addresses. signing was disabled when he found it
> nov 5 02:43 utc: @HeyTrustWallet confirmed it's a phishing domain and reported it for takedown
> @cz_binance boosted the warning: ".cam is not .com"
> the only @TrustWallet statement i found: "Always verify official links"
> around 10:30 utc today the domain stopped resolving
> fake emails are going around too: a "data breach" mail that zurich police warned about on oct 28, and an "update wallet v2.68" mail that support called a scam on nov 1
i haven't seen a single loss tied to trastwallet[.]cam.
B) the TRON sweep: confirmed on-chain
@noirvox_studio posted that 3,830 USDT left his trust wallet with no approval. the no-approval part is correct. here's what the chain shows:
> 13:29:09 utc nov 3: a plain USDT transfer() of 3,830 to TQcGuE…5JM, signed by his own key. 39.22 TRX went to the same address in the same second
> his address has one key, threshold 1, no permission changes. no contract pulled anything
> TQcGuE…5JM was created 12.5 minutes before that
> between 13:16:42 and 13:52:21 it received funds from 108 distinct addresses by my count: 5,913.67 USDT from 15 of them, 2,988 TRX from 105
> several had been dormant since 2022 (TCRZ4F…, TQcmsC…, TX4tiw…)
> at 13:32 the collector sent one wallet 0.28 TRX for fees, then pulled its 969.34 USDT
> 13:38:36: all 5,913.67 USDT swapped to 18,342 TRX
> 21:14:57: 21,106 TRX sent to TEr95…, then at 21:23:03 on to TFDzxj…, a busy wallet whose owner i can't confirm
> about a minute after the drain, a lookalike address ending in …5JM sent him dust. that's address poisoning, and it came after the loss
@iris_intel_app traced this collector first (nov 4 14:57 utc). they count 136 wallets. i count 108 distinct senders with a 0.1 TRX floor. either way these are addresses, not people. one person can hold many.
no one phishes 100+ wallets, some idle since 2022, in 36 minutes. the keys were stolen earlier and swept in one batch. the chain doesn't show how they leaked.
what fits, without proving it:
> @_SEAL_Org's weekly stats have logged trust wallet iOS compromises in three recent reports: 4 reports for $165K, 4 for $434K ("mostly TRON"), and 6 for about $127K for oct 28 to nov 3
> SEAL suspects the DarkSword iOS kit, delivered through malicious ads
> on oct 7 @censysio found a live DarkSword/Coruna kit with a trust wallet module that also scans photos and notes for seed phrases. @GoogleCloudSec's GTIG documented the exploit chain in march
> every DarkSword bug is patched as of iOS 26.3
i can't show that DarkSword drained noirvox or any single wallet here. it's a suspected pattern.
the fee top-up and then the sweep is the same playbook as the BSC case i checked on oct 28, on a different chain. i found no on-chain link between the two.
C) the "$1.1M iOS 18.5 exploit": unconfirmed
> @Solana_Emperor's post credits a telegram channel
> its only image is an arkham view of TRON USDT going into a binance deposit address and on to binance hot wallets. about $790K is visible, not $1.1M
> no victim wallets appear in it, and nothing ties it to trust wallet or to TQcGuE…
> i found no trust wallet post telling users to update iOS
the "trust wallet hacked is confirmed" posts, like @cryptowaladmc's, came with no tx and no source.
the receipts:
drain: tronscan.org/#/transaction/…
swap: tronscan.org/#/transaction/…
21,106 TRX hop: tronscan.org/#/transaction/…
collector: tronscan.org/#/address/TQcG…
phishing site: x.com/Malwarehunterr…
support confirmation: x.com/HeyTrustWallet…
first trace: x.com/iris_intel_app…
SEAL stats: radar.securityalliance.org/seal-weekly-st…
censys report: censys.com/blog/darksword…
if you keep a wallet on an iPhone:
> update iOS. the DarkSword bugs are patched as of 26.3
> never keep your seed in notes, photos, screenshots or cloud backups
> if funds left without you signing, treat the seed as gone. make a fresh seed on a clean device and move what's left. a new wallet on the same compromised phone can get swept too
> ignore "support" DMs and "update wallet" emails. no real support will ask for your phrase
nothing here shows an app got hacked. what the chain does show is worse for the victims: their keys were already gone before the drain started.
you don't get that from a phishing click. that's someone who already had the keys.
"trust wallet hacked" is everywhere this week. i went through the posts and the chain. it's at least three separate stories glued together, and none of them shows a trust wallet app or server exploit.
A) the phishing site: real, but no losses tied to it
> nov 4 20:29 utc: @Malwarehunterr exposed trastwallet[.]cam, a fake "review your wallet transfers" page. its script scanned balances and staged transfers to fixed addresses. signing was disabled when he found it
> nov 5 02:43 utc: @HeyTrustWallet confirmed it's a phishing domain and reported it for takedown
> @cz_binance boosted the warning: ".cam is not .com"
> the only @TrustWallet statement i found: "Always verify official links"
> around 10:30 utc today the domain stopped resolving
> fake emails are going around too: a "data breach" mail that zurich police warned about on oct 28, and an "update wallet v2.68" mail that support called a scam on nov 1
i haven't seen a single loss tied to trastwallet[.]cam.
B) the TRON sweep: confirmed on-chain
@noirvox_studio posted that 3,830 USDT left his trust wallet with no approval. the no-approval part is correct. here's what the chain shows:
> 13:29:09 utc nov 3: a plain USDT transfer() of 3,830 to TQcGuE…5JM, signed by his own key. 39.22 TRX went to the same address in the same second
> his address has one key, threshold 1, no permission changes. no contract pulled anything
> TQcGuE…5JM was created 12.5 minutes before that
> between 13:16:42 and 13:52:21 it received funds from 108 distinct addresses by my count: 5,913.67 USDT from 15 of them, 2,988 TRX from 105
> several had been dormant since 2022 (TCRZ4F…, TQcmsC…, TX4tiw…)
> at 13:32 the collector sent one wallet 0.28 TRX for fees, then pulled its 969.34 USDT
> 13:38:36: all 5,913.67 USDT swapped to 18,342 TRX
> 21:14:57: 21,106 TRX sent to TEr95…, then at 21:23:03 on to TFDzxj…, a busy wallet whose owner i can't confirm
> about a minute after the drain, a lookalike address ending in …5JM sent him dust. that's address poisoning, and it came after the loss
@iris_intel_app traced this collector first (nov 4 14:57 utc). they count 136 wallets. i count 108 distinct senders with a 0.1 TRX floor. either way these are addresses, not people. one person can hold many.
no one phishes 100+ wallets, some idle since 2022, in 36 minutes. the keys were stolen earlier and swept in one batch. the chain doesn't show how they leaked.
what fits, without proving it:
> @_SEAL_Org's weekly stats have logged trust wallet iOS compromises in three recent reports: 4 reports for $165K, 4 for $434K ("mostly TRON"), and 6 for about $127K for oct 28 to nov 3
> SEAL suspects the DarkSword iOS kit, delivered through malicious ads
> on oct 7 @censysio found a live DarkSword/Coruna kit with a trust wallet module that also scans photos and notes for seed phrases. @GoogleCloudSec's GTIG documented the exploit chain in march
> every DarkSword bug is patched as of iOS 26.3
i can't show that DarkSword drained noirvox or any single wallet here. it's a suspected pattern.
the fee top-up and then the sweep is the same playbook as the BSC case i checked on oct 28, on a different chain. i found no on-chain link between the two.
C) the "$1.1M iOS 18.5 exploit": unconfirmed
> @Solana_Emperor's post credits a telegram channel
> its only image is an arkham view of TRON USDT going into a binance deposit address and on to binance hot wallets. about $790K is visible, not $1.1M
> no victim wallets appear in it, and nothing ties it to trust wallet or to TQcGuE…
> i found no trust wallet post telling users to update iOS
the "trust wallet hacked is confirmed" posts, like @cryptowaladmc's, came with no tx and no source.
the receipts:
drain: tronscan.org/#/transaction/…
swap: tronscan.org/#/transaction/…
21,106 TRX hop: tronscan.org/#/transaction/…
collector: tronscan.org/#/address/TQcG…
phishing site: x.com/Malwarehunterr…
support confirmation: x.com/HeyTrustWallet…
first trace: x.com/iris_intel_app…
SEAL stats: radar.securityalliance.org/seal-weekly-st…
censys report: censys.com/blog/darksword…
if you keep a wallet on an iPhone:
> update iOS. the DarkSword bugs are patched as of 26.3
> never keep your seed in notes, photos, screenshots or cloud backups
> if funds left without you signing, treat the seed as gone. make a fresh seed on a clean device and move what's left. a new wallet on the same compromised phone can get swept too
> ignore "support" DMs and "update wallet" emails. no real support will ask for your phrase
nothing here shows an app got hacked. what the chain does show is worse for the victims: their keys were already gone before the drain started.
We traced it. Your 3,830 USDT left at 13:29 UTC Nov 3 in a transfer signed with your own key, so you're right, no approval: your recovery phrase or private key leaked.View quoted post on X
You're not the only one. The same wallet, TQcGuEhJhnLzGnUdoGbLkYFzwTFnaKq5JM, emptied 136 Tron wallets between 13:16 and 13:52 UTC, swapped the stolen USDT to TRX, and sent 21,106 TRX to one busy trading wallet: TFDzxjFRiPw3x3esyxKCSwaC4BY6BPjemJ
Move anything left on that phrase to a new wallet with a new phrase, and file a police report naming that wallet.
Full map: iriscan.app/explorer/t969b…
Having a bad day? someone lost $49,999,950 in 26 minutes by copying one address.
he did everything right first: a $50 test to the correct address. then he copied the next address from his own history, and it wasn't his.
this happened on dec 19, 2025 and it's going around again (@Codedscientist reposted it). @web3_antivirus flagged it first and @SlowMist_Team traced the laundering. i went back through every transaction on etherscan to document what the victim's history looked like in those 26 minutes.
the timeline, utc:
> 14:41:11 49,999,950 USDT lands in the wallet
> 15:06:47 test: 50 USDT to the real address 0xbaf4…f8b5
> 15:10:11 a zero-value USDT entry appears in his history, "sent" to 0xbaff…f8b5. he never signed it
> 15:11 to 15:12 three more senders drop fakes into the same history
> 15:20:35 the fake address sends him 0.005 USDT of dust
> 15:32:59 49,999,950 USDT goes to 0xbaff…f8b5
> 16:01:23 all of it is swapped to DAI, which tether can't freeze
the receipts:
test: etherscan.io/tx/0x7f5d895ce…
fake entry: etherscan.io/tx/0xfc1ea6df1…
dust: etherscan.io/tx/0x9780f38b6…
loss: etherscan.io/tx/0xc0514a795…
swap to DAI: etherscan.io/tx/0x40c307183…
i reviewed the bot behind that 15:10:11 entry. one pattern kept appearing: the victim wasn't picked, he was swept up.
> that one tx faked 22 transfers at once, across 22 different wallets
> for 19 of them i found the real transfer it was copying, almost all made in the 4 minutes before
> each fake points to a lookalike of that wallet's real recipient
> the same bot address sent 106 txs between 08:40 on dec 19 and 02:40 on dec 20
> across them i count 2,150 zero-value fakes aimed at 1,290 different wallets
the victim was one row out of 1,290.
before you call it a "5 character" scam, check the addresses yourself:
real: 0xbaf4b1aF7E3B560d937DA0458514552B6495F8b5
fake: 0xBaFF2F13638C04B10F8119760B2D2aE86b08f8b5
a lot of posts say the first 5 matched. on-chain it's 7 characters total: "baf" after the 0x, plus "f8b5" at the end. they split at the 4th character. many wallet screens shorten addresses to about that much.
everyone is focused on the $50M. the next question is what happened after.
> by 17:48 utc his history held 9 different 0xbaf…f8b5 lookalikes
> fake "USDT" tokens showed 49,999,950 sends to other fakes
> the DAI was later swapped to ETH and sent to tornado cash, per slowmist's and bitquery's traces
> the victim posted an on-chain bounty offer. i haven't found any report of funds coming back
and the method is still running. a large HYPE wallet i looked at today on hyperevm gets a lookalike dust tx 20 to 60 seconds after almost every outbound transfer. i have no evidence it's the same operator. it is the same trick.
before you send a big transfer, check these 3 things:
> copy the address from where you saved it, never from your transaction history
> compare the middle of the address, not just the start and end
> treat any zero-value or dust transfer you didn't expect as a sign someone is targeting you
your history is the one place in your wallet that someone else can write to.
he did everything right first: a $50 test to the correct address. then he copied the next address from his own history, and it wasn't his.
this happened on dec 19, 2025 and it's going around again (@Codedscientist reposted it). @web3_antivirus flagged it first and @SlowMist_Team traced the laundering. i went back through every transaction on etherscan to document what the victim's history looked like in those 26 minutes.
the timeline, utc:
> 14:41:11 49,999,950 USDT lands in the wallet
> 15:06:47 test: 50 USDT to the real address 0xbaf4…f8b5
> 15:10:11 a zero-value USDT entry appears in his history, "sent" to 0xbaff…f8b5. he never signed it
> 15:11 to 15:12 three more senders drop fakes into the same history
> 15:20:35 the fake address sends him 0.005 USDT of dust
> 15:32:59 49,999,950 USDT goes to 0xbaff…f8b5
> 16:01:23 all of it is swapped to DAI, which tether can't freeze
the receipts:
test: etherscan.io/tx/0x7f5d895ce…
fake entry: etherscan.io/tx/0xfc1ea6df1…
dust: etherscan.io/tx/0x9780f38b6…
loss: etherscan.io/tx/0xc0514a795…
swap to DAI: etherscan.io/tx/0x40c307183…
i reviewed the bot behind that 15:10:11 entry. one pattern kept appearing: the victim wasn't picked, he was swept up.
> that one tx faked 22 transfers at once, across 22 different wallets
> for 19 of them i found the real transfer it was copying, almost all made in the 4 minutes before
> each fake points to a lookalike of that wallet's real recipient
> the same bot address sent 106 txs between 08:40 on dec 19 and 02:40 on dec 20
> across them i count 2,150 zero-value fakes aimed at 1,290 different wallets
the victim was one row out of 1,290.
before you call it a "5 character" scam, check the addresses yourself:
real: 0xbaf4b1aF7E3B560d937DA0458514552B6495F8b5
fake: 0xBaFF2F13638C04B10F8119760B2D2aE86b08f8b5
a lot of posts say the first 5 matched. on-chain it's 7 characters total: "baf" after the 0x, plus "f8b5" at the end. they split at the 4th character. many wallet screens shorten addresses to about that much.
everyone is focused on the $50M. the next question is what happened after.
> by 17:48 utc his history held 9 different 0xbaf…f8b5 lookalikes
> fake "USDT" tokens showed 49,999,950 sends to other fakes
> the DAI was later swapped to ETH and sent to tornado cash, per slowmist's and bitquery's traces
> the victim posted an on-chain bounty offer. i haven't found any report of funds coming back
and the method is still running. a large HYPE wallet i looked at today on hyperevm gets a lookalike dust tx 20 to 60 seconds after almost every outbound transfer. i have no evidence it's the same operator. it is the same trick.
before you send a big transfer, check these 3 things:
> copy the address from where you saved it, never from your transaction history
> compare the middle of the address, not just the start and end
> treat any zero-value or dust transfer you didn't expect as a sign someone is targeting you
your history is the one place in your wallet that someone else can write to.