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User Loses $305K in DAI to Address Poisoning Attack, GoPlus Says

A user lost about $305,000 in DAI to an address-poisoning attack, GoPlus Security said in a monitoring alert. The attacker generated a fake address matching the prefix and suffix of the victim’s intended transfer address and sent small dust amounts to lure the user into copying it from transaction history. GoPlus said such attacks are now fully automated, from target discovery to address spoofing and laundering through mixers, and urged users to verify full addresses and send test transfers.

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Address poisoning is notable less for its technical sophistication than for its economics: it monetizes the habit of copying addresses from transaction history, a workflow that wallet interfaces have long normalized. The claim that the process is now fully automated, from target discovery through mixer laundering, matters because it suggests the attack scales beyond opportunistic scammers. The practical exposure sits with high-frequency transfer users rather than protocol or issuer risk, and the open question is whether wallet and explorer interfaces change how they display or truncate counterparty addresses.

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