Phishing / Social Engineering attacks in 2026

Scammers spun up a counterfeit GIWA Layer-2 network with the real chain ID, tricked a DEX into listing it as the mainnet, and drained about $2 million in ETH from 1,335 wallets through a fake bridge.

An anonymous crypto whale lost about $25.6 million to a phishing drain on Ethereum — the same wallet that had already been phished for roughly $24 million in 2023.

A Venus Protocol user was phished into delegating account control, losing ~$3.7M from their supplied position. Venus contracts were never compromised.