The Zklend -Uitbuiter lost all 2,930 ETH in a phishing -swam while trying to wash the stolen money white with the help of what they thought was tornado -continuous money.
According to a post of March 31 on X by Consensys-Backed De.fi Antivirus Web3, the attacker wrongly deposited the stolen funds into a fake-tornado-Cash website, which resulted in an immediate loss. Data on the chains shows that after realizing the error, the hacker sent a desperate message to the implementation address of Zklend and allows their blunder.
“I tried to move funds to Tornado, but I used a phishing website and all funds were lost. I am devastated,” wrote the hacker. They apologized for the attack and urged Zklend to concentrate his recovery efforts on the phishing operators.
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More than $ 9.6 million in Ethereum (ETH) was stolen in the Zklend exploit, which took place on 12 February. In an attempt to carry out negotiations, the Hacker Leen Protocol -based loan protocol offered a reward of 10% in exchange for returning the remaining funds before February 14.
Zklend was forced to escalate the case for law enforcement because the hacker ignored the deadline. The platform announced that the security experts had called in of the StarkNet Foundation, Starware and Binance Security to find and restore the funds. But now that the stolen ETH has been lost due to a phishing scam, things seem to have taken a surprising turn.
The Zklend attack is part of a growing trend of high-profile cryptocurrency exploits. According to Immunefi’s Q1 2025 reportThe first three months of 2025, the worst quarter before Crypto security surcharges in history saw, with hackers stealing $ 1.64 billion. The Zklend-Hack was the fourth largest exploit of the quarter.
Decentralized financial protocols lost $ 106.8 million over 38 incidents, with Ethereum and BNB (BNB) chain the most focused networks. While Defi suffered several attacks, centralized financial platforms only saw two incidents, but they resulted in a stunning $ 1.5 billion in losses.
