The company said that on September 19, some users of the Banana Gun Telegram bot reported unauthorized transfers from their crypto wallets. The Banana Gun team urgently shut down their Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to avoid further losses.
After an investigation by the project’s development team and external experts, it was determined that only about a dozen users of the automated trading platform fell victim to the exploit.
“A total of 11 people were affected and $3 million was stolen. All victims will be fully reimbursed from the Banana Gun treasury,” the company said.
After eliminating the causes of the vulnerability and implementing additional enhanced security measures, Banana Gun reactivated the work of Telegram bots.
Earlier, hardware crypto wallet manufacturers and computer security experts reported the discovery of a new method for stealing seed phrases and private keys from hardware wallets called Dark Skippy. The Dark Skippy method works on any device, and only two signed transactions are needed to steal a key.
Source: Bits
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