DISPATCH FROM THE DIGITAL FRONTIER: Address Poisoning Surge at Crypto Gates
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ZURICH, 28 JAN — Poisoned ledgers. Ghost addresses. 270M attacks now mapped across Ethereum, BSC. Victims misled by near-identical strings—cloned in shadow. 83.8M USD lost. This is not breach—this is deception at scale. The front is memory itself. More to follow.
ZURICH, 28 JANUARY — Poisoned ledgers now clog the chain. Adversaries deploy lookalike addresses—hexadecimal twins, differing by a single character—seeded into recent histories like booby-trapped receipts. At the crypto gates, users hesitate, deceived by false familiarity. The hum of GPUs echoes in the dark: one syndicate, traced through cross-chain spoor, generates fakes at industrial scale. 17M marked for targeting. 6,633 transfers already diverted—83.8M USD siphoned into ghost wallets. We watched a transaction bleed at Block 19,442,801: sender chose poison, mistaking mimic for ally. Clustering reveals not lone wolves, but organized fronts—competing, profiteering. Ethereum and BSC reels under the weight of false friends. Countermeasures lag. If no checksum shields rise, the ledger will no longer be trusted—nor used.
—Inspector Grey
Dispatch from The Scramble E2
Published January 28, 2026
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