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rug pull hardDemo

Jan 16, 2025 · $633.1K · social

Narrative

On 2025-01-16, Etherscan suffered a rug pull hard incident resulting in approximately $633,141 in losses. The exploit targeted the social layer. Attribution: dprk_lazarus. This is a demonstration entry — not a real incident.

Victims

Classification

Root cause
rug_pull_hard
Secondary causes
rug_pull_soft
Attack layer
social
Strategy
internal_theft
Actor role
perpetrator
Attribution
dprk_lazarus
Attacker address
0x4ad8f3a34ca04dccf35f786371cff13957af210a
Flash loan
no
Audited at time
no
Bounty at time
no

AADAPT mappings

DEMO:AADAPT.TA0040DEMO:AADAPT.TA0010DEMO:AADAPT.T1657

Evidence

Disclosure date
Jan 17, 2025
Funds recovered
Audit firms at time
Post-mortem URLs (synthetic)
  • https://medium.com/etherscan/post-mortem-etherscan-2025-01-16
  • https://rekt.news/etherscan-rekt
tx hashes (2)
  • 0x569c34ec38732496e10ce92bfdef655cfd1ea3cc0b69a2e44b289d2b645f74b9
  • 0x244ffc8a8dc0517020c93fa9d122182d2d2a2c84a0e555d20673b4a42eeb16b3