It's the latest in a string of unusual wallet-draining attacks that began in April
A Monero Project maintainer who goes by the alias of Luigi announced on November 2 that the project's community crowdfunding system wallet was drained of 2,675.73 XMR on September 1.
"It's also possible that the attacker isn't aware of what they've stolen, in which case I'd ask them to consider that they have stolen funds that are donated by individuals against specific things that Monero contributors are working on," Monahan noted that most victims are high profile and large sums are being stolen in each wallet sweep, indicating that it may be a targeted operation.could have had a role in leaking the seeds to the raided wallets, she said she was"confident" that seeds were stolen from the password manager.
"Additionally, most users who had their wallets drained had extremely secure LastPass passwords. It would be legitimately impossible to brute force them. Which means that either someone has compromised hundreds of users' vaults one by one via a still undetected method, or it means that LastPass has still not shared some critical details about their security posture and the stuff that was compromised by the attackers.
More than 25 different victims had their wallets drained on October 25 alone, amounting to a total of $4.4 million stolen, according to theirthat there is no current evidence linking the company's breach to the ongoing wallet-draining attacks.
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